Matthew 23:25
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25 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
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Luke 11:39-40
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39 Then the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.(A) 40 You fools! Did not the one who made the outside make the inside also?
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Matthew 15:19-20
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19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false witness, slander.(A) 20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.”
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Mark 7:4-13
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4 and they do not eat anything from the market unless they wash,[a] and there are also many other traditions that they observe: the washing of cups and pots and bronze kettles and beds.[b])(A) 5 So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”(B) 6 He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,
‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;(C)
7 in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.’
8 “You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”(D)
9 Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!(E) 10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’(F) 11 But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God[c]),(G) 12 then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, 13 thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”
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Isaiah 28:7-8
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7 These also reel with wine
and stagger with strong drink;
the priest and the prophet reel with strong drink;
they are confused with wine;
they stagger with strong drink;
they err in vision;
they stumble in giving judgment.(A)
8 All tables are covered with filthy vomit;
no place is clean.(B)
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