The Words of Jesus Christ Page 159 Judgment & Salvation (cont'd). Condemnations (cont'd): Scribes & Pharisees
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15 JUDGMENT & SALVATION (cont'd)
10 Condemnations (cont'd)
Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocricy.
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[To the Pharisees and Scribes:] Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as
it is written,
This people honoureth me with their lips,
But their heart is far from me.
But in vain do they worship me,
Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.
Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
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[To the Pharisees:] Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your
father it is your will to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood
not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he
speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.
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[To the Pharisees:] Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good
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[To 'those Jews which had believed him':] Ye are from beneath; I am from
above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore unto
you, that ye shall die in your sins: for except ye believe that I am he, ye
shall die in your sins.
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The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat: all things therefore
whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their
works; for they say, and do not. Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to
be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move
them with their finger. But all their works they do for to be seen of men: for
they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,
and love the chief place at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues, and
the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called of men, Rabbi. But be
not ye called Rabbi: for one is your teacher, and all ye are brethren. And
call no man your father on the earth: for one is your Father, which is in
heaven. Neither be ye called masters: for one is your master, even the Christ.
But he that is greatest among you shall be your servant. And whosoever shall
exalt himself shall be humbled; and whosoever shall humble himself shall be
exalted.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut the
kingdom of heaven against men: for ye enter not in yourselves, neither suffer
ye them that are entering in to enter.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land
to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, you make him twofold more a
son of hell than yourselves.
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple,
it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a
debtor. Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple
that hath sanctified the gold? And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is
nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a
debtor. Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that
sanctifieth the gift? He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it,
and by all the things thereon. And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by
it, and by him that dwelleth therein. And he that sweareth by the heaven,
sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise
and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, judgement,
and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left
the other undone. Ye blind guides, which strain out the gnat, and swallow the
camel.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of
the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and
excess. Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the
platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited
sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead
men's bones, and of all uncleanness. Even so ye also outwardly appear
righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres
of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous, and say, If we had
been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them
in the blood of the prophets. Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are
sons of them that slew the prophets. Fill ye up then the measure of your
fathers. Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the
judgement of hell? Therefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men,
and scribes: some of them shall ye kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye
scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city: that upon you may
come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the
righteous unto the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom ye slew between
the sanctuary and the altar. Verily I say unto you, All these things shall
come upon this generation.
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And I say unto you, that many shall come from the east and the west, and shall
sit down with Abraham, and Isaac, and Jacob, in the kingdom of heaven: but the
sons of the kingdom shall be cast forth into the outer darkness: there shall
be the weeping and gnashing of teeth.
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