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Matthew 23:8-20 Darby Translation 1890 (DARBY)

8. But ye, be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your instructor, and all ye are brethren.

9. And call not any one your father upon the earth; for one is your Father, he who is in the heavens.

10. Neither be called instructors, for one is your instructor, the Christ.

11. But the greatest of you shall be your servant.

12. And whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

15. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is become such, ye make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.

16. Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

17. Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?

18. And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

19. Fools and blind ones, for which is greater, the gift, or the altar which sanctifies the gift?

20. He therefore that swears by the altar swears by it and by all things that are upon it.

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