Matthew 23:3 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

so practice and observe whatever they tell you, but not what they do; for they preach, but do not practice.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

all therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So observe and practice all they tell you; but do not do what they do, for they preach, but do not practice.

American Standard Version (1901)

all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.

Common English Bible

Therefore, you must take care to do everything they say. But don’t do what they do.

Catholic Public Domain Version

Therefore, all things whatsoever that they shall say to you, observe and do. Yet truly, do not choose to act according to their works. For they say, but they do not do.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not; for they say, and do not.

Matthew 23:3 Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:12

The hand of God was also upon Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded by the word of the Lord.

Exodus 18:23

If you do this, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.”

Matthew 21:30

And he went to the second and said the same; and he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but did not go.

Matthew 23:2

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat;

Matthew 23:4

They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.

Romans 13:1

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and those that exist have been instituted by God.

Deuteronomy 4:5

Behold, I have taught you statutes and ordinances, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land which you are entering to take possession of it.

Deuteronomy 5:27

Go near, and hear all that the Lord our God will say; and speak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you; and we will hear and do it.’

2 Timothy 3:5

holding the form of religion but denying the power of it. Avoid such people.

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.