Matthew 23:24-26
International Children’s Bible
24 You guide the people, but you are blind! You are like a person who picks a fly out of his drink and then swallows a camel![a]
25 “How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes. But inside they are full of things that you got by cheating others and pleasing only yourselves. 26 Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup clean and good. Then the outside of the cup can be truly clean.
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- 23:24 You . . . camel! Meaning, “You worry about the smallest mistakes but commit the biggest sin.”
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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