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Ferrar Fentons 'Holy Bible in Modern English. All spelling, punctuation and formatting maintained through-out. Verse ordering follows the King James version for clarity and necessary organization of the verses.

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RF MAT 23:1 The Pharisees and the Jewish Nation.
Jesus then addressing the people and His own disciples,
RF MAT 23:2 said: "The professors and the Pharisees have usurped the place of Moses.
RF MAT 23:3 All, therefore, that they tell you to observe, observe and do: but do not imitate their doings; for they do not practice what they preach:
RF MAT 23:4 On the contrary, they pack up heavy and unendurable loads upon men's shoulders; but they take care not to touch them with their own fingers.
RF MAT 23:5 All their actions are done merely for the sake of being seen by men: they widen their phylacteries, and extend the fringes of their cloaks;
RF MAT 23:6 they delight to secure the places of honour at banquets, the principal seats in the synagogues,
RF MAT 23:7 the salutations in the markets; and to be addressed by men as 'My lord, my lord.'
RF MAT 23:8 You, however, must not be called 'Teacher'; because I alone am your Teacher, and you are all brothers!
RF MAT 23:9 And upon earth call none your father; for One is your Father, He Who is in heaven.
RF MAT 23:10 Neither select leaders; for One is your Leader, the Messiah.
RF MAT 23:11 But the greatest among you shall become an attendant:
RF MAT 23:12 and whoever sets himself up shall be brought low; and whoever humbles himself shall be exalted.
RF MAT 23:13 "Woe to you, Play-acting professors and Pharisees! because you lock up the Kingdom of Heaven in the face of mankind; while you yourselves neither enter, nor allow those arriving to go in.
RF MAT 23:14 "Alas for you, play-acting professors and Pharisees! because you devour the property of the widows by the pretence of long prayers; for which you will receive a heavier punishment.
RF MAT 23:15 Woe to you, play-acting professors and Pharisees! who scour the sea and the desert in order to secure one convert; and, finding one, you make him a son of the Pit twice as much as yourselves!
RF MAT 23:16 "Woe to you, blind guides! who say, 'If one swears by the temple, it is nothing; but if a man swears by the gold in the temple, that oath must be kept'
RF MAT 23:17 "Fools and blind! which is the greater?—the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?
RF MAT 23:18 "You say, 'If one swears by the altar, it is nothing; but if a man swears by the gift upon it, that oath must be kept '!
RF MAT 23:19 "Fools and blind! which is greater?—the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?"
RF MAT 23:20 A man, however, who swears by the altar, swears by all that is upon it.
RF MAT 23:21 And whoever swears by the temple, swears by the One Who inhabits it.
RF MAT 23:22 And whoever swears by the heaven, swears by the throne of God, and the One Who sits upon it.
RF MAT 23:23 "Woe to you, canting professors and Pharisees! because you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, ignoring the more important statutes of the law—humanity, sympathy, faith; these you ought to have observed, and not to have cast the others aside.
RF MAT 23:24 Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, and gulp down a camel!
RF MAT 23:25 "Woe to you, hypocritical professors and Pharisees! because you wash the outside of the cup and the plate, but fill the inside with extortion and injustice—
RF MAT 23:26 Blind Pharisee I cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, so that their outside may also become clean.
RF MAT 23:27 "Woe to you, shamming professors and Pharisees! you are just like whitewashed tombs—pretty enough outside, but inside full of dead men's bones and every kind of corruption.
RF MAT 23:28 So you too outwardly appear to men to be religious; but inwardly you are crammed with false pretence, and every form of lawlessness.
RF MAT 23:29 "Woe to you, professors and Pharisees, you hypocrites! because you erect monuments to the prophets; decorate the tombs of the martyrs;
RF MAT 23:30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our forefathers, we would not have aided them in shedding the blood of the prophets.
RF MAT 23:31 Thus, then. you give evidence against yourselves that you are the sons of the murderers of the prophets!
RF MAT 23:32 Fill up, then, the measures of your fathers!
RF MAT 23:33 Serpents! spawn of vipers! how can you escape the fury of hell?
RF MAT 23:34 "Lo, I will therefore send you prophets, and thinkers, and scholars; and some of them you will murder and crucify; while others you will flog in your synagogues, and drive from town to town,
RF MAT 23:35 in such a way that all the righteous blood shed upon the earth—from the blood of the just Abel, down to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you assassinated between the entrance of the temple and the altar—may rest upon you.
RF MAT 23:36 Indeed, I tell you, that all these shall come upon the present generation.
RF MAT 23:37 "Jerusalem! Jerusalem! who massacred the prophets, and stoned those sent to her! how often would I have gathered your children together, like the bird that collects her nestlings under her wings, and you would not!
RF MAT 23:38 Now see your house left to yourselves.
RF MAT 23:39 Yes, I tell you that after this you shall not see Me again until you say,
BLESS HIM WHO COMES IN THE NAME OF THE LORD!"1
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1. Psa cxviii.6




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AKJV ROM 8:32 He that spared not his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how shall he not with him also freely give us all things?



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