Matthew 23:17

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Matt 23:19 : 19 Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
  • Exod 30:26-29 : 26 And you shall anoint the tabernacle of meeting with it, and the ark of the testimony, 27 And the table and all its utensils, and the lampstand and its utensils, and the altar of incense, 28 And the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the laver and its base. 29 And you shall sanctify them, that they may be most holy; whoever touches them must be holy.
  • Num 16:38-39 : 38 The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign to the children of Israel. 39 And Eleazar the priest took the bronze censers, with which they that were burned had offered; and they were made into broad plates for a covering of the altar.
  • Ps 94:8 : 8 Understand, you senseless among the people: and you fools, when will you be wise?

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  • Matt 23:18-27
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    89%

    18And, Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty.

    19Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

    20Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

    21And whoever swears by the temple, swears by it and by him that dwells in it.

    22And he who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by him who sits on it.

    23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

    24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

    26Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

    27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

  • Matt 23:15-16
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    15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

    16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated!

  • Luke 11:39-40
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    73%

    39And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

    40Fools, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

  • 1 Cor 3:17-18
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    71%

    17If anyone defiles the temple of God, God will destroy him; for the temple of God is holy, which temple you are.

    18Let no one deceive himself. If anyone among you seems to be wise in this world, let him become a fool, that he may be wise.

  • Matt 12:5-6
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    5Or have you not read in the law, how on the Sabbath days the priests in the temple profane the Sabbath, and are guiltless?

    6But I say to you, that in this place is one greater than the temple.

  • Luke 21:5
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    5And as some spoke of the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and gifts, he said,

  • Joel 3:5
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    5Because you have taken my silver and my gold, and have carried into your temples my precious pleasant things.

  • Mark 11:17
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    17And he taught, saying to them, Is it not written, My house shall be called of all nations the house of prayer? but you have made it a den of thieves.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.

  • Jer 7:4
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    4Do not trust in deceptive words, saying, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, The temple of the LORD, are these.

  • Matt 15:14
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    14Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

  • Matt 21:13
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    13And said to them, It is written, My house shall be called a house of prayer; but you have made it a den of thieves.

  • 2 Chr 4:22
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    22The snuffers, the basins, the spoons, and the censers, of pure gold. As for the entry of the house, the inner doors for the Most Holy Place and the doors of the main hall of the temple were gold.

  • Matt 22:18
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    18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  • Luke 6:39
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    39And he spoke a parable to them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

  • Eccl 5:1
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    1Keep your foot when you go to the house of God, and be more ready to hear than to offer the sacrifice of fools, for they do not know that they do evil.

  • Isa 46:6
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    6They pour out gold from the bag, and weigh silver on the scales, and hire a goldsmith; and he makes it a god: they fall down, yes, they worship.

  • Ezek 7:19
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    19They shall cast their silver in the streets, and their gold shall be removed; their silver and their gold shall not be able to deliver them in the day of the wrath of the LORD; they shall not satisfy their souls, nor fill their stomachs, because it is the stumbling block of their iniquity.

  • Prov 17:16
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    16Why is there a price in the hand of a fool to get wisdom, seeing he has no desire for it?

  • Luke 19:46
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    46Saying to them, It is written, My house is a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of thieves.

  • Lam 4:1
    67%

    1How has the gold become dim! How is the finest gold changed! The stones of the sanctuary are poured out at the top of every street.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Rom 2:22
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    22You who say a man should not commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you commit sacrilege?

  • Matt 15:5
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    5But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

  • Matt 21:23
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    23And when he came into the temple, the chief priests and the elders of the people came to him as he was teaching and said, By what authority do you do these things? And who gave you this authority?

  • Ps 135:15
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    15The idols of the nations are silver and gold, the work of men's hands.

  • Jer 5:21
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    21Hear now this, O foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and see not; who have ears, and hear not:

  • Luke 20:23
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    23But he perceived their trickery, and said to them, Why do you test me?

  • Luke 24:25
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    25Then he said to them, O foolish ones, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken:

  • Exod 20:23
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    23You shall not make anything to be with Me—gods of silver or gods of gold you shall not make for yourselves.

  • Matt 23:29
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    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

  • Matt 22:20
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    20And he said to them, Whose image and inscription is this?

  • Matt 5:35
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    35Nor by the earth, for it is his footstool: neither by Jerusalem, for it is the city of the great King.

  • Prov 26:5
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    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own eyes.

  • Ps 115:4
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    4Their idols are silver and gold, the work of human hands.

  • Prov 17:24
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    24Wisdom is in the sight of him who has understanding, but the eyes of a fool are on the ends of the earth.