Matthew 23:16

Woe to you, blind guides, who say: Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is bound.

The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)

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

15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye 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 ye say: Whoever says to his father or his mother, It is a gift, whatever thou mightest be profited with from me,

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

Matthew 23:24Blind guides! that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

Mark 7:10For Moses said: Honor thy father and thy mother; and he that curses father or mother, let him surely die.

Galatians 5:3Now I testify again to every man who becomes circumcised, that he is a debtor to keep 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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