Matthew 23:17
Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?
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- Matt 23:19 : 19 Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?
- Exod 30:26-29 : 26 `And thou hast anointed with it the tent of meeting, and the ark of the testimony, 27 and the table and all its vessels, and the candlestick and its vessels, and the altar of perfume, 28 and the altar of burnt-offering and all its vessels, and the laver and its base; 29 and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;
- Num 16:38-39 : 38 `even' the censers of these sinners against their own souls; and they have made them spread-out plates, a covering for the altar, for they have brought them near before Jehovah, and they are hallowed; and they are become a sign to the sons of Israel.' 39 And Eleazar the priest taketh the brazen censers which they who are burnt had brought near, and they spread them out, a covering for the altar --
- Ps 94:8 : 8 Consider, ye brutish among the people, And ye foolish, when do ye act wisely?
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- Matt 23:18-2710 verses89%
18`And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!
19Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?
20`He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;
21and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;
22and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.
23`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved `you' to do, and those not to neglect.
24`Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
25`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.
26`Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.
27`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;
- Matt 23:15-162 verses86%
15`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.
16`Wo to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!
- Luke 11:39-402 verses73%
39And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;
40unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?
- 1 Cor 3:17-182 verses71%
17if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.
18Let no one deceive himself; if any one doth seem to be wise among you in this age -- let him become a fool, that he may become wise,
- Matt 12:5-62 verses71%
5`Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?
6and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here;
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5And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,
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5In that My silver and My gold ye took, And My desirable things that are good, Ye have brought in to your temples.
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17and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'
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22And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.
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4Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah `are' they!
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14let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
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13and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'
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22and the snuffers, and the bowls, and the spoons, and the censers, of gold refined, and the opening of the house, its innermost doors to the holy of holies, and the doors of the house to the temple, of gold.
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18And Jesus having known their wickedness, said, `Why me do ye tempt, hypocrites?
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39And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?
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1Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.
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6-- They are pouring out gold from a bag, And silver on the beam they weigh, They hire a refiner, and he maketh it a god, They fall down, yea, they bow themselves.
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19Their silver into out-places they cast, And their gold impurity becometh. Their silver and their gold is not able to deliver them, In a day of the wrath of Jehovah, Their soul they do not satisfy, And their bowels they do not fill, For the stumbling-block of their iniquity it hath been.
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16Why `is' this -- a price in the hand of a fool to buy wisdom, And a heart there is none?
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46saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'
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1How is the gold become dim, Changed the best -- the pure gold? Poured out are stones of the sanctuary At the head of all out-places.
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6`Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.
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22thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?
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5but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --
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23And he having come to the temple, there came to him when teaching the chief priests and the elders of the people, saying, `By what authority dost thou do these things? and who gave thee this authority?'
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15The idols of the nations `are' silver and gold, Work of the hands of man.
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21Hear ye, I pray you, this, O people, foolish and without heart, Eyes they have, and they see not, Ears they have, and they hear not.
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23And he, having perceived their craftiness, said unto them, `Why me do ye tempt?
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25And he said unto them, `O inconsiderate and slow in heart, to believe on all that the prophets spake!
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23ye do not make with Me gods of silver, even gods of gold ye do not make to yourselves.
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29`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,
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20and he saith to them, `Whose `is' this image and the inscription?'
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35nor by the earth, because it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is a city of a great king,
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5Answer a fool according to his folly, Lest he be wise in his own eyes.
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4Their idols `are' silver and gold, work of man's hands,
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24The face of the intelligent `is' to wisdom, And the eyes of a fool -- at the end of the earth.