Matthew 23:25 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

²⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of extortion and rapacity.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but within they are full of extortion (prey, spoil, plunder) and grasping self-indulgence.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁵ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

Common English Bible

²⁵ “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and plate, but inside they are full of violence and pleasure seeking.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you clean what is outside the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of avarice and impurity.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁵ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

Matthew 23:25 Cross References

Matthew 14:8

Prompted by her mother, she said, “Give me the head of John the Baptist here on a platter.”

Philippians 2:6

who, though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped,