Matthew 23:16 - Forerunner Commentary

Matthew 23:16

14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! ^aFor 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 of¹ hell as yourselves.

16 “Woe to you, ^ablind 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 ^aor the temple that 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 ^aor the altar that sanctifies the gift?

20 Therefore he who 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 ^aHim who dwells in it.

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Interlinear Bible for Matthew 23:16:

Woe
ouai (#3759) unto you,
humin (#5213) ye blind
tuphlos (#5185) guides,
hodegos (#3595) which say,
lego (#3004) Whosoever
orcheomai (#3739) shall swear
omma (#3660) by
en (#1722) the
xurao (#3588) temple,
naos (#3485) it is
esti (#2076) nothing;
oude (#3762) but
de (#1161) whosoever
orcheomai (#3739) shall swear
omma (#3660) by
en (#1722) the
xurao (#3588) gold
chrusos (#5557) of the
xurao (#3588) temple,
naos (#3485) he is a debtor!
opheilema (#3784)

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