Matthew 23:1-22 ▼

1 Then spake Iesus to the multitudes, and to his disciples,

2 Saying: The Scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moyses seate.

3 All therfore, whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and do: but do not ye after their workes, for they say, and do not.

4 Yea, they bynde together heauy burthens, and greeuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders: but they them selues wyll not moue them with one of their fingers.

5 All their workes they do, for to be sene of men: They make broade their philacteries, and enlarge the hemmes of their garmentes.

6 And loue the vppermost seates at feastes, and to syt in the chiefe place in councels,

7 And greetynges in the markettes, and to be called of men, Rabbi.

8 But be not ye called Rabbi: For one is your maister, euen Christe, and all ye are brethren.

9 And call no man your father, vpon the earth: for one is your father, which is in heauen.

10 Neither be ye called maisters: for one is your maister euen Christe.

11 He that is greatest among you, shalbe your seruaunt.

12 But whosoeuer exalteth hym selfe, shalbe brought lowe: And he that humbleth hym selfe, shalbe exalted.

13 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: ye neither go in your selues, neither suffer ye them that come, to enter in.

14 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widdowes houses, and that vnder a pretence of long prayer: therfore ye shall receaue the greater dampnation.

15 Wo vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and lande, to make one proselite: & when he is become one, ye make hym two folde more the chylde of hell, then ye your selues are .

16 Wo be vnto you ye blynde guides: for ye say, whosoeuer doth sweare by the temple, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the temple, he is a detter.

17 Ye fooles and blynde. For whether is greater, the golde, or the temple that sanctifieth the golde?

18 And whosoeuer sweareth by the aulter, it is nothyng: but whosoeuer sweareth by the gyft that is vpon it, he is a detter.

19 Ye fooles and blynde, for whether is greater, the gyft: or the aulter that sanctifieth the gyft?

20 Who so therfore sweareth by the aulter, sweareth by it, and by all thynges theron.

21 And who so sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by hym that dwelleth therin.

22 And he that sweareth by heauen, sweareth by the seate of God, and by hym that sitteth theron.