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Matthew 23:3-28
All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do.For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called‘ Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men.But don’t you be called‘ Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers.Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven.Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ.But he who is greatest among you will be your servant.Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
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Micah 3:11
Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say,“ Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”
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Luke 12:47
That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
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Psalms 50:16-21
But to the wicked God says,“ What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips,since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you?When you saw a thief, you consented with him, and have participated with adulterers.“ You give your mouth to evil. Your tongue frames deceit.You sit and speak against your brother. You slander your own mother’s son.You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes.
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Luke 19:22
“ He said to him,‘ Out of your own mouth I will judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
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Luke 4:23
He said to them,“ Doubtless you will tell me this parable,‘ Physician, heal yourself! Whatever we have heard done at Capernaum, do also here in your hometown.’”
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Galatians 6:13
For even they who receive circumcision don’t keep the law themselves, but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may boast in your flesh.
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Ezekiel 22:27
Her princes within it are like wolves ravening the prey, to shed blood, and to destroy souls, that they may get dishonest gain.
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Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are greedy. They can never have enough. They are shepherds who can’t understand. They have all turned to their own way, each one to his gain, from every quarter.
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,Saying,‘ When will the new moon be gone, that we may sell grain? And the Sabbath, that we may market wheat, making the ephah small, and the shekel large, and dealing falsely with balances of deceit;that we may buy the poor for silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the sweepings with the wheat?’”
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Ezekiel 22:12-13
In you have they taken bribes to shed blood. You have taken interest and increase, and you have greedily gained of your neighbors by oppression, and have forgotten me,” says the Lord Yahweh.“‘“ Behold, therefore I have struck my hand at your dishonest gain which you have made, and at your blood which has been within you.
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1 Corinthians 9 27
but I beat my body and bring it into submission, lest by any means, after I have preached to others, I myself should be rejected.
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Matthew 21:13
He said to them,“ It is written,‘ My house shall be called a house of prayer,’ but you have made it a den of robbers!”
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Titus 2:1-7
But say the things which fit sound doctrine,that older men should be temperate, sensible, sober minded, sound in faith, in love, and in perseverance:and that older women likewise be reverent in behavior, not slanderers nor enslaved to much wine, teachers of that which is good,that they may train the young wives to love their husbands, to love their children,to be sober minded, chaste, workers at home, kind, being in subjection to their own husbands, that God’s word may not be blasphemed.Likewise, exhort the younger men to be sober minded.In all things be showing yourself an example of good works. In your teaching, be showing integrity, seriousness, incorruptibility,
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Luke 11:46
He said,“ Woe to you lawyers also! For you load men with burdens that are difficult to carry, and you yourselves won’t even lift one finger to help carry those burdens.