Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
17Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are all of them blind, they are without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs that cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber:
Matthew 15:5But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited:
Matthew 23:17Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
Matthew 23:24Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.
Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, he who speaks ill of father or mother, let him surely die.
Galatians 5:3And I witness again to every man [who is] circumcised, that he is debtor 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 →