Matthew 23:13-15

Disciples’ Literal New Testament

Woe To You, Scribes And Pharisees. You Are Blind Guides. How Will You Escape Hell?

¹³“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you are shutting the kingdom of the heavens in-front-of ^[a] people. For you are not entering, nor are you permitting the ones entering to enter. ¹⁴^[b] ¹⁵Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you go-around the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte. And when he becomes one, you make him a son of Gehenna^[c] double-more than you.

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Footnotes

Matthew 23:13 You pull the door shut from the outside before they can enter.
Matthew 23:14 Some manuscripts have here, ‘And woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour the houses of the widows, and are praying long for a pretense. Because of this, you will receive a greater condemnation’.
Matthew 23:15 That is, hell. You make converts to Phariseeism, not to God.

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