14 All these things heard the Pharisees also which were covetous, and they scoffed at him.

15 [a]Then he said unto them, Ye are they, which justify yourselves before men: but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

16 (A)[b]The Law and the Prophets endured until John: and since that time the kingdom of God is preached, and every man presseth into it.

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Footnotes

  1. Luke 16:15 Our sins are not hidden to God, although they be hidden to men, yea although they be hidden to them whose sins they are.
  2. Luke 16:16 The Pharisees despised the excellency of the new Covenant, in respect of the old, being ignorant of the perfect righteousness of the Law, and how false expounders they were of the Law, Christ declareth by the seventh Commandment.

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