TOPICAL BIBLE
Ecclesiasticism
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Matthew 23:18‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated?’Matthew 23:19You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?Matthew 23:20He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.Matthew 23:21He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.Matthew 23:22He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.Matthew 23:23“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.Matthew 23:24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!Matthew 23:25“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.Matthew 23:26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.Matthew 23:27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.Matthew 23:28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.Matthew 23:29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,Matthew 23:30and say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn’t have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.’Matthew 23:31Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.Matthew 23:33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?Matthew 23:34Therefore, behold, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify; and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city;Matthew 23:35that on you may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zachariah son of Barachiah, whom you killed between the sanctuary and the altar.Mark 7:2Now when they saw some of his disciples eating bread with defiled, that is, unwashed, hands, they found fault.Mark 7:3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.Mark 7:4They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)Mark 7:5The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”Mark 7:6He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.Mark 7:7But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’Mark 7:8“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”Mark 7:9He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.Mark 7:10For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’Mark 7:11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;”’Mark 7:12then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,Mark 7:13making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”Mark 7:14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, “Hear me, all of you, and understand.Mark 7:15There is nothing from outside of the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.Mark 7:16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”Mark 7:17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.Mark 7:18He said to them, “Are you thus without understanding also? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,Mark 7:19because it doesn’t go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?”Mark 7:20He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.Mark 7:21For from within, out of the hearts of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, sexual sins, murders, thefts,Mark 7:22covetings, wickedness, deceit, lustful desires, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness.Mark 7:23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.”Mark 9:49For everyone will be salted with fire, and every sacrifice will be seasoned with salt.Mark 9:50Salt is good, but if the salt has lost its saltiness, with what will you season it? Have salt in yourselves, and be at peace with one another.”
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