Matthew 23:20

New Living Translation

When you swear ‘by the altar,’ you are swearing by it and by everything on it.

Cross References

Matthew 23:19

How blind! For which is more important—the gift on the altar or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

Matthew 23:21

And when you swear ‘by the Temple,’ you are swearing by it and by God, who lives in it.

Hebrews 6:16

Now when people take an oath, they call on someone greater than themselves to hold them to it. And without any question that oath is binding.