Matthew 23:25

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Woe {G3759} unto you {G5213}, scribes {G1122} and {G2532} Pharisees {G5330}, hypocrites {G5273}! for {G3754} ye make clean {G2511} the outside {G1855} of the cup {G4221} and {G2532} of the platter {G3953}, but {G1161} within {G2081} they are full {G1073} of {G1537} extortion {G724} and {G2532} excess {G192}.

"Woe to you hypocritical Torah-teachers and P'rushim! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of robbery and self indulgence.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

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Cross-References

  • Luke 11:39 (10 votes)

    And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

  • Luke 11:40 (10 votes)

    [Ye] fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

  • Matthew 15:19 (5 votes)

    For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

  • Matthew 15:20 (5 votes)

    These are [the things] which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.

  • Isaiah 28:7 (3 votes)

    But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

  • Isaiah 28:8 (3 votes)

    For all tables are full of vomit [and] filthiness, [so that there is] no place [clean].

  • Mark 7:4 (2 votes)

    And [when they come] from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, [as] the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.