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Obligation to little duties may be urged, because

(1)  they contribute to maintain a tenderness of conscience;

(2)  they are sources of re-conversion after great falls;

(3)  they make up by their frequency what is wanting to their importance;

(4)  they have sometimes characters as certain of real love as the great duties have.

(J. Saurin.)

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KJV: Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

WEB: "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.