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• Deuteronomy 13:1

  If a prophet or a dreamer of dreams arises among you, and he gives you a sign or a wonder,

• Deuteronomy 13:2

  and the sign or the wonder comes to pass, of which he spoke to you, saying, “Let us go after other gods” (which you have not known) “and let us serve them”;

• Deuteronomy 13:3

  you shall not listen to the words of that prophet, or to that dreamer of dreams; for Yahweh your God is testing you, to know whether you love Yahweh your God with all your heart and with all your soul.

• 1 Samuel 19:20

  Saul sent messengers to seize David: and when they saw the company of the prophets prophesying, and Samuel standing as head over them, God’s Spirit came on Saul’s messengers, and they also prophesied.

• 2 Kings 4:38

  Elisha came again to Gilgal. There was a famine in the land; and the sons of the prophets were sitting before him; and he said to his servant, “Get the large pot, and boil stew for the sons of the prophets.”

• Matthew 5:19

  Whoever, therefore, shall break one of these least commandments, and teach others to do so, shall be called least in the Kingdom of Heaven; but whoever shall do and teach them shall be called great in the Kingdom of Heaven.

• Matthew 7:15

  “Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

• Matthew 15:2

  “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

• Matthew 15:3

  He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

• Matthew 15:4

  For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

• Matthew 15:5

  But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”

• Matthew 15:6

  he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

• Matthew 15:7

  You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

• Matthew 15:8

  ‘These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

• Matthew 15:9

  And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”

• Matthew 15:10

  He summoned the multitude, and said to them, “Hear, and understand.

• Matthew 15:11

  That which enters into the mouth doesn’t defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

• Matthew 15:12

  Then the disciples came, and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?”

• Matthew 15:13

  But he answered, “Every plant which my heavenly Father didn’t plant will be uprooted.

• Matthew 15:14

  Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. If the blind guide the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

• Matthew 15:15

  Peter answered him, “Explain the parable to us.”

• Matthew 15:16

  So Jesus said, “Do you also still not understand?

• Matthew 15:17

  Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?

• Matthew 15:18

  But the things which proceed out of the mouth come out of the heart, and they defile the man.

• Matthew 15:19

  For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual sins, thefts, false testimony, and blasphemies.

• Matthew 15:20

  These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn’t defile the man.”

• Matthew 23:2

  saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

• Matthew 23:3

  All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.

• Matthew 23:4

  For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

• Matthew 23:5

  But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

• Matthew 23:6

  and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,

• Matthew 23:7

  the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.

• Matthew 23:8

  But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.

• Matthew 23:9

  Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.

• Matthew 23:10

  Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.

• Matthew 23:11

  But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.

• Matthew 23:12

  Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

• Matthew 23:13

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

• Matthew 23:14

  “But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don’t enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.

• Matthew 23:15

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.

• Matthew 23:16

  “Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.’

• Matthew 23:17

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

• Matthew 23:18

  ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’

• Matthew 23:19

  You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

• Matthew 23:20

  He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.

• Matthew 23:21

  He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

• Matthew 23:22

  He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.

• Matthew 23:23

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Matthew 23:24

  You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

• Matthew 23:25

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

• Matthew 23:26

  You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

• Matthew 23:27

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

• Matthew 23:28

  Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

• Matthew 23:29

  “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

• Matthew 23:30

  and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’

• Matthew 23:31

  Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.

• Matthew 23:32

  Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.

• Matthew 23:33

  You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

• Luke 11:38

  When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

• Luke 11:39

  The Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

• Luke 11:40

  You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

• Luke 11:41

  But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

• Luke 11:42

  But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

• Luke 11:43

  Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

• Luke 11:44

  Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

• Luke 11:45

  One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”

• Luke 11:46

  He said, “Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.

• Luke 11:47

  Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

• Luke 11:48

  So you testify and consent to the works of your fathers. For they killed them, and you build their tombs.

• Luke 11:49

  Therefore also the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send to them prophets and apostles; and some of them they will kill and persecute,

• Luke 11:50

  that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

• Luke 11:51

  from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

• Luke 11:52

  Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”