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Luke 11:32-46 New American Standard Bible (NASB)

32. The men of Nineveh will stand up with this generation at the judgment and condemn it, because they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and behold, something greater than Jonah is here.

33. "No one, after lighting a lamp, puts it away in a cellar nor under a basket, but on the lampstand, so that those who enter may see the light.

34. The eye is the lamp of your body; when your eye is clear, your whole body also is full of light; but when it is bad, your body also is full of darkness.

35. Then watch out that the light in you is not darkness.

36. If therefore your whole body is full of light, with no dark part in it, it will be wholly illumined, as when the lamp illumines you with its rays."

37. Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in, and reclined at the table.

38. When the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised that He had not first ceremonially washed before the meal.

39. But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the platter; but inside of you, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

40. You foolish ones, did not He who made the outside make the inside also?

41. But give that which is within as charity, and then all things are clean for you.

42. "But woe to you Pharisees! For you pay tithe of mint and rue and every kind of garden herb, and yet disregard justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others.

43. Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the respectful greetings in the market places.

44. Woe to you! For you are like concealed tombs, and the people who walk over them are unaware of it."

45. One of the lawyers said to Him in reply, "Teacher, when You say this, You insult us too."

46. But He said, "Woe to you lawyers as well! For you weigh men down with burdens hard to bear, while you yourselves will not even touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

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