Matthew 23:26-33 Catholic Public Domain Version (CPDV)

26. You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, and then what is outside becomes clean.

27. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.

28. So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.

29. Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites, who build the sepulchers of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just.

30. And then you say, 'If we had been there in the days of our fathers, we would not have joined with them in the blood of the prophets.'

31. And so you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of those who killed the prophets.

32. Complete, then, the measure of your fathers.

33. You serpents, you brood of vipers! How will you escape from the judgment of Hell?

Matthew 23