Scripture Readings

Tuesday, August 14, 2012

Matthew 23:23-28 (Gospel)

23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.
24
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!
25
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.
26
Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.
27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
28
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.