Matthew 23:19
You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?
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Referenced Verses
- Exod 29:37 : 37 For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.
- Exod 30:29 : 29 So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.
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- Matt 23:16-183 verses89%
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say,‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’
17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
18 And,‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’
- Matt 23:20-223 verses79%
20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.
21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.
22 And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.
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8 “You must not accept a bribe, for a bribe blinds those who see and subverts the words of the righteous.
- Luke 11:40-412 verses70%
40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?
41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
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5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
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10 We have an altar that those who serve in the tabernacle have no right to eat from.
- Matt 23:24-263 verses68%
24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
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37 For seven days you are to make atonement for the altar and set it apart as holy. Then the altar will be most holy. Anything that touches the altar will be holy.
- Mal 1:7-82 verses68%
7 You are offering improper sacrifices on my altar, yet you ask,‘How have we offended you?’ By treating the table of the LORD as if it is of no importance!
8 For when you offer blind animals as a sacrifice, is that not wrong? And when you offer the lame and sick, is that not wrong as well? Indeed, try offering them to your governor! Will he be pleased with you or show you favor?” asks the LORD of Heaven’s Armies.
- Matt 12:5-73 verses67%
5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
6 I tell you that something greater than the temple is here.
7 If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
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1 Rash Vows(4:17) Be careful what you do when you go to the temple of God; draw near to listen rather than to offer a sacrifice like fools, for they do not realize that they are doing wrong.
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11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God),
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23 If we have built an altar for ourselves to turn back from following the LORD by making burnt sacrifices and grain offerings on it, or by offering tokens of peace on it, the LORD himself will punish us.
- Matt 5:23-242 verses66%
23 So then, if you bring your gift to the altar and there you remember that your brother has something against you,
24 leave your gift there in front of the altar. First go and be reconciled to your brother and then come and present your gift.
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39 He also told them a parable:“Someone who is blind cannot lead another who is blind, can he? Won’t they both fall into a pit?
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13 Don’t you know that those who serve in the temple eat food from the temple, and those who serve at the altar receive a part of the offerings?
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13 You also do this: You cover the altar of the LORD with tears as you weep and groan, because he no longer pays any attention to the offering nor accepts it favorably from you.
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5 The Signs of the End of the Age Now while some were speaking about the temple, how it was adorned with beautiful stones and offerings, Jesus said,
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25 If you make me an altar of stone, you must not build it of stones shaped with tools, for if you use your tool on it you have defiled it.
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17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
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14 You must not curse a deaf person or put a stumbling block in front of a blind person. You must fear your God; I am the LORD.
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20 You must not present anything that has a flaw, because it will not be acceptable for your benefit.
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10 Then you are to anoint the altar for the burnt offering with all its utensils; you are to sanctify the altar, and it will be the most holy altar.
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22 You who tell others not to commit adultery, do you commit adultery? You who abhor idols, do you rob temples?
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29 Why are you scorning my sacrifice and my offering that I commanded for my dwelling place? You have honored your sons more than you have me by having made yourselves fat from the best parts of all the offerings of my people Israel.’
- 1 Cor 10:18-192 verses65%
18 Look at the people of Israel. Are not those who eat the sacrifices partners in the altar?
19 Am I saying that idols or food sacrificed to them amount to anything?
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4 Those standing near him said,“Do you dare insult God’s high priest?”
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6 Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
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8 “You are to say to them:‘Any man from the house of Israel or from the resident foreigners who live in their midst, who offers a burnt offering or a sacrifice
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22 “‘You must not present to the LORD something blind, or with a broken bone, or mutilated, or with a running sore, or with a festering eruption, or with a feverish rash. You must not give any of these as a gift on the altar to the LORD.
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14 Leave them! They are blind guides. If someone who is blind leads another who is blind, both will fall into a pit.”
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19 and if you are convinced that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,
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9 This was a symbol for the time then present, when gifts and sacrifices were offered that could not perfect the conscience of the worshiper.
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22 “When someone is accused of sinning against his neighbor and the latter pronounces a curse on the alleged offender before your altar in this temple,
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29 So you are to sanctify them, and they will be most holy; anything that touches them will be holy.
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8 You must sanctify him because he presents the food of your God. He must be holy to you because I, the LORD who sanctifies you all, am holy.
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23 but he must not go near the special curtain or step forward to the altar because he has a physical flaw. Thus he must not profane my holy places, for I am the LORD who sanctifies them.’”
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21 If they have any kind of blemish– lameness, blindness, or anything else– you may not offer them as a sacrifice to the LORD your God.