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Matthew 23:24-26
Expanded Bible
Matthew 23:24-26
Expanded Bible
24 ·You guide the people, but you are blind! [L Blind guides!] You ·are like a person who picks a fly out of a drink and then swallows a camel [L strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel; C worrying about the smallest mistakes while committing the biggest sins]!
25 “·How terrible for [L Woe to] you, ·teachers of the law [scribes] and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You ·wash [clean] the outside of your cups and dishes [C for ceremonial purity], but inside they are full of ·things you got by cheating others and by pleasing only yourselves [L greed/robbery and self-indulgence]. 26 Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup[a] clean, and then the outside ·can be truly [or will also be] clean.
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- Matthew 23:26 cup Some Greek copies add “and dish.”
Matthew 23:24-26
New International Version
Matthew 23:24-26
New International Version
24 You blind guides!(A) You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.
25 “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish,(B) but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.(C) 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, and then the outside also will be clean.
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