Matthew 23:16

James Moffatt - New Testament

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."

Matthew 23:24

Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

Matthew 23:17

You are senseless and blind! for which is the greater, the gold or the sanctuary that makes the gold sacred?

James 5:12

Above all, my brothers, never swear an oath, either by heaven or by earth or by anything else; let your "yes" be a plain "yes," your "no" a plain "no," lest you incur judgment.

Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! first clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may be clean as well.

Matthew 23:19

You are blind! for which is the greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Galatians 5:3

I insist on this again to everyone who gets circumcised, that he is obliged to carry out the whole of the Law.

Matthew 23:13

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.