Matthew 23:16

Alas for you, blind guides! who say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, becomes a debtor.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

In Context

15Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is made, you make him twofold more a child of hell than yourselves.

17Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

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Cross References

Matthew 15:5But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever of mine might profit you, is a gift, he must in no way honor his father or his mother;

Matthew 23:17Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

Matthew 23:24Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.

Mark 7:10For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and, He that curses father or mother shall surely be put to death.

Galatians 5:3I testify indeed again to every man that is circumcised, that he is bound to do the whole law.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34

The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →

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