Matthew 23:16
Woe unto you, all of you 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!
Updated King James Version
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In Context
17All of you fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that santifies the gold?
Cross References
Isaiah 56:10His watchmen are blind: they are all ignorant, they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; sleeping, lying down, loving to slumber.
Matthew 15:5But all of you say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatsoever you might be profited by me;
Matthew 23:17All of you fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that santifies the gold?
Matthew 23:24All of you blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.
Mark 7:10For Moses said, Honour your father and your mother; and, Whoso curses father or mother, let him die the death:
Galatians 5:3For I testify again to every man that is circumcised, that he is a 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 →