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Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not.

And all their works they do, to be seen of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and extend the fringes of their garments.

But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Rabbi, and ye are all brethren.

And ye shall not call yourselves Father on earth; for one is your Father, who is in heaven.

And be ye not called guides; for one is your Guide, the Messiah.

For whoever shall] exalt himself, will be abased: and whoever shall abase himself, will be exalted.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye devour the houses of widows, under the disguise of protracting your prayers. Therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

Woe to you. Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye hold the kingdom of heaven closed before men; for ye enter not yourselves, and those that would enter ye suffer not to enter.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye traverse sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is gained, ye make him a child of hell twofold more than yourselves.

Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.

Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the oblation, or the altar that sanctifieth the oblation?

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye tithe mint, and anise, and cummin, and omit the graver [fn] of the law, judgment, and mercy, and fidelity: these ought ye to do, and those not to omit.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and the dish, while within they are full of rapine and wickedness.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye build the tombs of the prophets and ye adorn the sepulchres of the righteous;

And as for you, fill ye up the measure of your fathers.

For I say to you, That ye shall not see me henceforth, until ye shall say: Blessed is he that cometh in the name of the Lord.

For many will come in my name, and will say, I am the Messiah: and they will deceive many.

And ye are to hear of conflicts, and the rumor of battles. See that ye be not disquieted: for all these things must come; but the consummation is not yet.