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Matthew 23:3
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.

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Matthew 23:2
saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.

Exodus 23:2
“You shall not follow a crowd to do evil. You shall not testify in court to side with a multitude to pervert justice.

Deuteronomy 12:30
be careful that you are not ensnared to follow them after they are destroyed from before you, and that you not inquire after their gods, saying, “How do these nations serve their gods? I will do likewise.”

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

1 Samuel 8:20
that we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.”

2 Kings 17:15
They rejected his statutes and his covenant that he made with their fathers, and his testimonies which he testified to them; and they followed vanity, and became vain, and followed the nations that were around them, concerning whom Yahweh had commanded them that they should not do like them.

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Romans 2:21
You therefore who teach another, don’t you teach yourself? You who preach that a man shouldn’t steal, do you steal?

Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

Matthew 15:3
He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Luke 6:46
“Why do you call me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do the things which I say?

Romans 2:19
and are confident that you yourself are a guide of the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

Romans 2:23
You who glory in the law, do you dishonor God by disobeying the law?

Romans 2:24
For “the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles because of you,” just as it is written.

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