Matthew 23:16

Bible in Basic English 1965

You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

Cross References

Isaiah 9:16

For the guides of this people are the cause of their wandering from the right way, and those who are guided by them come to destruction.

Matthew 15:14

Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 23:17

And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.

Matthew 23:19

He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.

Matthew 23:24

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

Matthew 23:26

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

Galatians 5:3

Yes, I give witness again to every man who undergoes circumcision, that he will have to keep all the law.

James 5:12

But most of all, my brothers, do not take oaths, not by the heaven, or by the earth, or by any other thing: but let your Yes be Yes, and your No be No: so that you may not be judged.