Daily Discovery Bible Study

13 But what a disaster is coming on you religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You slam shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. You yourselves don't go in, yet you don't let anyone in who is trying to enter.14 15 What a disaster is coming on you, religious teachers and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make a single convert, and when you do, you make him twice a son of darkness as you are yourselves.16 What a disaster is coming on those of you who say, ‘If you swear by the Temple that doesn't count, but if you swear by the gold of the Temple, then you have to keep your oath.’ How foolish and blind you are!17 What is greater—the gold, or the Temple that makes the gold holy?18 You say, ‘If you swear on the altar that doesn't count, but if you swear on the sacrifice that's on the altar, then you have to keep your oath.’19 How blind you are! What is greater—the sacrifice, or the altar that makes the sacrifice holy?20 If you swear by the altar, you swear by it and by everything that's on it.21 If you swear by the Temple you swear by it and by the one who lives there.22 If you swear by heaven you swear by the throne of God and the one who sits there.

Matthew 23: 13-22