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Mat	22.39	A second likewise is this, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'
Mat	22.40	The whole law and the prophets depend on these two commandments.
Mat	22.42	What do you think of the Christ? Whose son is he?
Mat	22.43	How then does David in the Spirit call him Lord, saying,
Mat	22.44	'The Lord said to my Lord, Sit on my right hand, Until I make your enemies a footstool for your feet?'
Mat	22.45	If then David calls him Lord, how is he his son?
Mat	23.2	The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses' seat.
Mat	23.3	All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.
Mat	23.4	For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
Mat	23.5	But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,
Mat	23.6	and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,
Mat	23.7	the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called 'Rabbi, Rabbi' by men.
Mat	23.8	But don't you be called 'Rabbi,' for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.
Mat	23.9	Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.
Mat	23.10	Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.
Mat	23.11	But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.
Mat	23.12	Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
Mat	23.13	Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
Mat	23.14	But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the Kingdom of Heaven against men; for you don't enter in yourselves, neither do you allow those who are entering in to enter.
Mat	23.15	Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of Gehenna as yourselves.
Mat	23.16	Woe to you, you blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated.'
Mat	23.17	You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
Mat	23.18	'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is obligated.'
Mat	23.19	You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
Mat	23.20	He therefore who swears by the altar, swears by it, and by everything on it.
Mat	23.21	He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.
Mat	23.22	He who swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God, and by him who sits on it.
Mat	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.
Mat	23.24	You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!
Mat	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.
Mat	23.26	You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside of it may become clean also.
Mat	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.
Mat	23.28	Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Mat	23.29	Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
Mat	23.30	and 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.'
Mat	23.31	Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Mat	23.32	Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
Mat	23.33	You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
Mat	23.34	Therefore, 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;
Mat	23.35	that 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.
Mat	23.36	Most assuredly I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.
Mat	23.37	Jerusalem, Jerusalem, who kills the prophets, and stones those who are sent to her! How often would I have gathered your children together, even as a hen gathers her chickens under her wings, and you would not!
Mat	23.38	Behold, your house is left to you desolate.
Mat	23.39	For I tell you, you will not see me from now on, until you say, 'Blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord!'
Mat	24.2	Don't you see all of these things? Most assuredly I tell you, there will not be left here one stone on another, that will not be thrown down.
Mat	24.4	Be careful that no one leads you astray.
Mat	24.5	For many will come in my name, saying, 'I am the Christ,' and will lead many astray.
Mat	24.6	You will hear of wars and rumors of wars. See that you aren't troubled, for all this must happen, but the end is not yet.
Mat	24.7	For nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom; and there will be famines, plagues, and earthquakes in various places.
Mat	24.8	But all these things are the beginning of birth pains.
Mat	24.9	Then they will deliver you up to oppression, and will kill you. You will be hated by all of the nations for my name's sake.
Mat	24.10	Then many will stumble, and will deliver up one another, and will hate one another.
Mat	24.11	Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.
Mat	24.12	Because iniquity will be multiplied, the love of many will grow cold.
Mat	24.13	But he who endures to the end, the same will be saved.
Mat	24.14	This gospel of the kingdom will be preached in the whole world for a testimony to all the nations, and then the end will come.
Mat	24.15	When, therefore, you see the abomination of desolation, which was spoken of through Daniel the prophet, standing in the holy place (let the reader understand),
Mat	24.16	then let those who are in Judea flee to the mountains.
Mat	24.17	Let him who is on the housetop not go down to take out things that are in his house.
Mat	24.18	Let him who is in the field not return back to get his clothes.
Mat	24.19	But woe to those who are with child and to nursing mothers in those days!
Mat	24.20	Pray that your flight will not be in the winter, nor on a Sabbath,
Mat	24.21	for then there will be great oppression, such as has not been from the beginning of the world until now, no, nor ever will be.
Mat	24.22	Unless those days had been shortened, no flesh would have been saved. But for the sake of the chosen ones, those days will be shortened.
Mat	24.23	Then if any man tells you, 'Behold, here is the Christ,' or, 'There,' don't believe it.

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