¹³ “But ^(A)woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

^14 [a]Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^(A)For you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

¹⁵ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of ^[a]hell as yourselves.

¹⁶ “Woe to you, ^(A)blind guides, who say, ^(B)‘Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obliged to perform it.’

¹⁷ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold ^(A)or the temple that ^[a]sanctifies the gold?

¹⁸ And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obliged to perform it.’

¹⁹ Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift ^(A)or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

²⁰ Therefore he who ^[a]swears by the altar, swears by it and by all things on it.

²¹ He who swears by the temple, swears by it and by ^(A)Him who ^[a]dwells in it.

²² And he who swears by heaven, swears by ^(A)the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.