¹⁹ Or ^(A)do you not know that ^(B)your body is a ^[a]temple of the Holy Spirit within you, whom you have from ^[b]God, and that ^(C)you are not your own? ²⁰ For ^(D)you have been bought for a price: therefore glorify God in ^(E)your body.

Woes upon the Pharisees

³⁷ Now when He had spoken, a Pharisee *asked Him to have lunch with him; and He went in and reclined at the table. ³⁸ When the Pharisee saw this, he was surprised that Jesus had not first ^[a](A)ceremonially washed before the ^[b]meal. ³⁹ But ^(B)the Lord said to him, “Now ^(C)you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish; but your inside is full of greed and wickedness. ^40 (D)You foolish ones, did He who made the outside not make the inside also? ⁴¹ But ^(E)give that which is within as a charitable gift, and ^[c]then all things are ^(F)clean for you.

⁴² “^(G)But woe to you Pharisees! For you ^(H)pay tithes of mint, rue, and every kind of garden herb, and yet you ^[d]ignore justice and the love of God; but these are the things you should have done without neglecting the others. ⁴³ Woe to you Pharisees! For you ^(I)love the seat of honor in the synagogues and personal greetings in the marketplaces.

The Widow’s Coins

^41 (A)And Jesus sat down opposite ^(B)the treasury, and began watching how the ^[a]people were ^(C)putting ^[b]money into the treasury; and many rich people were putting in large amounts. ⁴² And a poor widow came and put in two ^[c]lepta coins, which amount to a ^[d]quadrans. ⁴³ Calling His disciples to Him, He said to them, “Truly I say to you, this poor widow put in more than all ^[e]the contributors to the treasury; ⁴⁴ for they all put in out of their ^[f]surplus, but she, out of her poverty, put in all she owned, ^[g]all she had ^(D)to live on.”

⁷ “From the ^(A)days of your fathers you have turned away from My statutes and have not kept them. ^(B)Return to Me, and I will return to you,” says the Lord of armies. “But you say, ‘How shall we return?’

You Have Robbed God

⁸ “Would anyone rob God? Yet you are robbing Me! But you say, ‘How have we robbed You?’ In ^(C)tithes and ^[a]offerings. ⁹ You are ^(D)cursed with a curse, for you are robbing Me, the entire nation of you! ^10 (E)Bring the whole tithe into the storehouse, so that there may be food in My house, and put Me to the test now in this,” says the Lord of armies, “if I do not ^(F)open for you the windows of heaven and ^(G)pour out for you a blessing until ^[b](H)it overflows. ¹¹ Then I will rebuke the ^(I)devourer for you, so that it will not destroy the fruit of your ground; nor will the vine in the field prove fruitless to you,” says the Lord of armies.