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15 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you travel around on sea and land to make one [a](A)proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of [b](B)hell as yourselves.

16 “Woe to you, (C)blind guides, who say, ‘(D)Whoever swears by the [c]sanctuary, that is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the [d]sanctuary is obligated.’ 17 You fools and blind men! For (E)which is [e]more important, the gold or the sanctuary that sanctified the gold?

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  1. Matthew 23:15 Or convert
  2. Matthew 23:15 Gr Gehenna
  3. Matthew 23:16 The inner part of the temple
  4. Matthew 23:16 The inner part of the temple
  5. Matthew 23:17 Lit greater