10. Don’t be called teacher, because Christ is your one teacher.
11. But the one who is greatest among you will be your servant.
12. All who lift themselves up will be brought low. But all who make themselves low will be lifted up.
13. “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. You don’t enter yourselves, and you won’t allow those who want to enter to do so.
15. “How terrible it will be for you, legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You travel over sea and land to make one convert. But when they’ve been converted, they become twice the child of hell you are.
16. “How terrible it will be for you blind guides who say, ‘If people swear by the temple, it’s nothing. But if people swear by the gold in the temple, they are obligated to do what they swore.’
17. You foolish and blind people! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold holy?
18. You say, ‘If people swear by the altar, it’s nothing. But if they swear by the gift on the altar, they are obligated to do what they swore.’