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Matthew 23:25

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

KJV

οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, γραμματεῖς καὶ Φαρισαῖοι ὑποκριταί, ὅτι καθαρίζετε τὸ ἔξωθεν τοῦ ποτηρίου καὶ τῆς παροψίδος, ἔσωθεν δὲ γέμουσιν ἐξ ἁρπαγῆς καὶ ἀκρασίας.

Greek NT

Væ vobis scribæ et pharisæi hypocritæ, quia mundatis quod deforis est calicis et paropsidis ; intus autem pleni estis rapina et immunditia !

Vulgate

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

ASV

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

18 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος
pharisaios
noun · 101×
γέμω
gemo
verb · 11×
γραμματεύς
grammateus
noun · 64×
δέ
de
conjunction · 2781×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
καθαρίζω
katharizo
verb · 31×
οὐαί
ouai
noun · 46×
παροψίς
paropsis
noun · 1×
ποτήριον
poterion
noun · 31×
ἀκρασία
akrasia
noun · 2×
ἁρπαγή
arpage
noun · 3×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἔξωθεν
exothen
adverb · 13×
ἔσωθεν
esothen
adverb · 12×
o
article · 19778×
ὅτι
oti
conjunction · 1299×
ὑμεῖς
umeis
pronoun · 1828×
ὑποκριτής
upokrites
noun · 17×

Textual variants

1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

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SBLGNT: ἀκρασίας | WH/Treg/NIV: ἀκρασίας | RP: ἀδικίας
  • ἀκρασίαςSBLGNT
  • ἀκρασίαςWestcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • ἀδικίαςRobinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Prophecy

Historic Christian voices

3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of heaven. The righteousness of the Pharisees consisted chiefly in three things: doing no harm, doing good, and using the ordinances of God. Yet with all this outward religion they were utterly destitute of true inward religion — of the religion of t…

Cross-references

  • 1Cor 5:11 — But now I have written unto you not to keep company, if any man that is called a brother be a fornicator, or covetous, or an idolater, or a railer, or a drunkard, or an extortioner; with such an one n
  • 2Cor 7:1 — Having therefore these promises, dearly beloved, let us cleanse ourselves from all filthiness of the flesh and spirit, perfecting holiness in the fear of God.
  • Acts 13:10 — And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
  • Isa 28:7 — But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way t
  • Isa 55:7 — Let the wicked forsake his way, and the unrighteous man his thoughts: and let him return unto the LORD, and he will have mercy upon him; and to our God, for he will abundantly pardon.
  • Jas 4:8 — Draw nigh to God, and he will draw nigh to you. Cleanse your hands, ye sinners; and purify your hearts, ye double minded.
  • John 8:7 — So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.
  • Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
  • Luke 11:39 — And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.
  • Luke 16:15 — And 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.
  • Mark 7:4 — And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
  • Mark 7:4 — And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they have received to hold, as the washing of cups, and pots, brasen vessels, and of tables.
  • Mark 7:21 — For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
  • Matt 5:8 — Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see God.
  • Matt 15:19 — For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
  • Matt 23:13 — But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
  • Phil 3:6 — Concerning zeal, persecuting the church; touching the righteousness which is in the law, blameless.
  • Prov 28:13 — He that covereth his sins shall not prosper: but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy.
  • Rom 2:29 — But he is a Jew, which is one inwardly; and circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit, and not in the letter; whose praise is not of men, but of God.