Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

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Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

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Matthew 23:3
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

Exodus 23:2
Do not be moved to do wrong by the general opinion, or give the support of your words to a wrong decision:

Deuteronomy 12:30
After their destruction take care that you do not go in their ways, and that you do not give thought to their gods, saying, How did these nations give worship to their gods? I will do as they did.

1 Samuel 8:19
But the people gave no attention to the voice of Samuel; and they said, No, but we will have a king over us,

1 Samuel 8:20
So that we may be like the other nations, and so that our king may be our judge and go out before us to war.

2 Kings 17:15
And they went against his rules, and the agreement which he made with their fathers, and his laws which he gave them; they gave themselves up to things without sense or value, and became foolish like the nations round them, of whom the Lord had said, Do not as they do.

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Ezra 7:6
This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a scribe, expert in the law of Moses which the Lord, the God of Israel, had given: and the king, moved by the Lord his God, gave him whatever he made request for.

Nehemiah 8:1
And when the seventh month came, the children of Israel were in their towns. And all the people came together like one man into the wide place in front of the water-doorway; and they made a request to Ezra the scribe that he would put before them the book of the law of Moses which the Lord had given to Israel.

Malachi 2:7
For it is right for the priest's lips to keep knowledge, and for men to be waiting for the law from his mouth: for he is the servant sent from the Lord of armies.

Nehemiah 8:4
And Ezra the scribe took his place on a tower of wood which they had made for the purpose; and by his side were placed Mattithiah and Shema and Anaiah and Uriah and Hilkiah and Maaseiah on the right; and on the left, Pedaiah and Mishael and Malchijah and Hashum and Hashbaddanah, Zechariah and Meshullam.

Nehemiah 8:8
And they gave out the words of the book the law of God, clearly, and gave the sense of it, so that their minds were able to take it in.

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Matthew 5:20
For I say to you, If your righteousness is not greater than the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never go into the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 15:1
Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

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Mark 12:38
And in his teaching he said, Be on your watch against the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes and be respected in the market-places,

Luke 20:46
Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;


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