Matthew 23:16

First Nations Version

“And to the blind guides who say, ‘A promise made outside the lodge can be broken, but one made inside must be kept,’

Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Then he warned them, “The Separated Ones (Pharisees) are blind guides. The ones who follow them are also blind, and they will both fall into a ditch. You will do well to stay away from them.”

Matthew 23:24

You are spiritually blind guides, for you strain out a small flea from your water pouch, but swallow a whole moose.

Matthew 23:17

you are so foolish and blind! It is not the lodge that makes the promise good, but it is the Great Spirit over the lodge who sees and hears all promises.

James 5:12

The chief thing I want to say to you, my sacred family members, is that you are not to make solemn promises. Do not promise by the spirit-world above, or by the earth below, or make a solemn promise in any other way. Your simple “yes” or “no” is enough. You may be found guilty if you say more.

Matthew 23:26

You blind Separated Ones (Pharisees)! First clean the inside of your cup, and then the outside of the cup will become clean also.

Matthew 23:19

Are you so blind? Can you not see that the Great Spirit sees and hears all promises and expects you to keep them?

Galatians 5:3

Again, I speak truth from my heart: any man who participates in the cutting of the flesh ceremony for good standing must follow all of the law given by Drawn from the Water (Moses).

Matthew 23:13

“Sorrow and trouble is waiting for you scroll keepers and Separated Ones (Pharisees), for you have hidden from the people the way onto the good road from above. You have failed to walk the good road yourselves, and, even worse, you have barred the way for others who were trying to find the way.