Matthew 23:26
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
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- Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.
- Isa 55:7 : 7 The wicked need to abandon their lifestyle and sinful people their plans. They should return to the LORD, and he will show mercy to them, and to their God, for he will freely forgive them.
- Jer 4:14 : 14 “Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?
- Jer 13:27 : 27 People of Jerusalem, I have seen your adulterous worship, your shameless prostitution to, and your lustful pursuit of, other gods. I have seen your disgusting acts of worship on the hills throughout the countryside. You are doomed to destruction! How long will you continue to be unclean?’”
- Ezek 18:31 : 31 Throw away all your sins you have committed and fashion yourselves a new heart and a new spirit! Why should you die, O house of Israel?
- Matt 12:33 : 33 Trees and Their Fruit“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
- Luke 6:45 : 45 The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.
- 2 Cor 7:1 : 1 Self-Purification Therefore, since we have these promises, dear friends, let us cleanse ourselves from everything that could defile the body and the spirit, and thus accomplish holiness out of reverence for God.
- Heb 10:22 : 22 let us draw near with a sincere heart in the assurance that faith brings, because we have had our hearts sprinkled clean from an evil conscience and our bodies washed in pure water.
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- Matt 23:23-253 verses92%
23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.
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.
- Luke 11:38-447 verses88%
38 The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.
39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
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.
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!
44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
- Matt 23:27-293 verses84%
27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
- Matt 7:3-53 verses75%
3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?
4 Or how can you say to your brother,‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own?
5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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15 But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
- Mark 7:2-65 verses73%
2 And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.
4 And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)
5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
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23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
- Matt 23:15-173 verses72%
15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
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?
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13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
- Mark 7:18-203 verses72%
18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)
20 He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.
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20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
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41 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?
42 How can you say to your brother,‘Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while you yourself don’t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
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11 What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
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7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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5 They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
- Matt 15:1-22 verses71%
1 Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,
2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
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1 Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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15 There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”
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36 If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”
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8 Indeed, all the tables are covered with vomit, with filth, leaving no clean place.
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17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
18 But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.
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8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
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20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
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12 Then they understood that he had not told them to be on guard against the yeast in bread, but against the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.