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Luke 11:33-46 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

33. No one lights a candle and places it in hiding, nor under a bushel basket, but upon a lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

34. Your eye is the light of your body. If your eye is wholesome, your entire body will be filled with light. But if it is wicked, then even your body will be darkened.

35. Therefore, take care, lest the light that is within you become darkness.

36. So then, if your entire body becomes filled with light, not having any part in darkness, then it will be entirely light, and, like a shining lamp, it will illuminate you."

37. And as he was speaking, a certain Pharisee asked him to eat with him. And going inside, he sat down to eat.

38. But the Pharisee began to say, thinking within himself: "Why might it be that he has not washed before eating?"

39. And the Lord said to him: "You Pharisees today clean what is outside the cup and the plate, but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity.

40. Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside?

41. Yet truly, give what is above as alms, and behold, all things are clean for you.

42. But woe to you, Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you ignore judgment and the charity of God. But these things you ought to have done, without omitting the others.

43. Woe to you, Pharisees! For you love the first seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the marketplace.

44. Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing it."

45. Then one of the experts in the law, in response, said to him, "Teacher, in saying these things, you bring an insult against us as well."

46. So he said: "And woe to you experts in the law! For you weigh men down with burdens which they are not able to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the weight with even one of your fingers.

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