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Matthew 23:24-29 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

24. Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!

25. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence!

26. Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.

27. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean!

28. In the same way, on the outside you also appear righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees—hypocrites!—because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

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