13 “You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’re actually keeping people away from the kingdom of the heavens—you don’t enter yourselves and nor do you allow others to enter.

14 ◘ 15 “You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you’d travel all the way around the world to make one convert, and then you’d make him twice the son of hell that you are yourselves.

16 “You blind guides will have a bad end. You say that if anyone makes an oath on the temple it’s worthless, but if they make an oath on the gold in the temple then they have to honour it. 17 You are both stupid and blind, because which is greater: the gold, or the temple which makes the gold valuable? 18 And you say that anyone who makes an oath on the altar it’s worthless, but anyone who makes an oath on the gift on the altar has to honour it. 19 You are both stupid and blind, because which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift valuable? 20 Anyone who makes an oath on the altar, is bound by both the altar and the things on it. 21 Anyone who makes an oath on the temple, is bound by both the temple and God who lives in it. 22 [ref]And anyone who makes an oath on heaven, is bound by both God’s throne and the one who’s sitting on it.

23 [ref]“You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you give a tenth of your herbs but you ignore the weightier parts of the commandments like justice and mercy and faith. Those are the things that should have been observed and not left out. 24 You blind guides. You try to strain out a gnat and end up swallowing a camel.

25 “You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you scrub the outside of your cups and bowls but the inside is still full of greed and selfishness. 26 You blind Pharisees. First you should clean the inside of your cup and dish so that the outside would also become clean.

27 [ref]“You religious teachers and Pharisees are hypocrites and will have a bad end because you are like whitewashed tombs. On the outside they might look nice, but the inside is full of the bones of the dead and all kinds of impurities, 28 so even though the people might think you’re godly on the outside, actually your insides are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.