Matthew 23:10-26 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

10. nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director--the Christ.

11. And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

12. and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

13. `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

14. `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

15. `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen--ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

16. `Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary--is debtor!

17. Fools and blind! for which [is] greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

18. `And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it--is debtor!

19. Fools and blind! for which [is] greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

20. `He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

21. and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

22. and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

23. `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law--the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved [you] to do, and those not to neglect.

24. `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

25. `Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

26. `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

Matthew 23