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Matthew 23:26-33 The Scriptures 1998 (ISR98)

26. “Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them becomes clean too.

27. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

28. “So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

29. “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

30. and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.’

31. “Thus you bear witness against yourselves that you are sons of those who did murder the prophets –

32. and you fill up the measure of your fathers!

33. “Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

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