46 And he said, “Woe to you (A)lawyers also! For (B)you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

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52 Woe to you (A)lawyers! (B)For you have taken away the key of (C)knowledge. You (D)did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

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(A)“The scribes and the Pharisees (B)sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, (C)but not the works they do. (D)For they preach, but do not practice. (E)They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear,[a] and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 23:4 Some manuscripts omit hard to bear

10 Woe to those who (A)decree iniquitous decrees,
    and the writers who (B)keep writing oppression,

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13 For even those who are circumcised do not themselves keep the law, but they desire to have you circumcised that they may boast in your flesh.

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45 One of (A)the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.”

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“Is not this the fast that I choose:
    (A)to loose the bonds of wickedness,
    to undo the straps (B)of the yoke,
to let the oppressed[a] go free,
    and to break every yoke?

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Footnotes

  1. Isaiah 58:6 Or bruised

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