Matthew 23:19

Matthew 23:19
You blind fools! For which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

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Exodus 27:1
“You shall make the altar of acacia wood, five cubits long, and five cubits wide. The altar shall be square. Its height shall be three cubits.

Exodus 29:36
Every day you shall offer the bull of sin offering for atonement. You shall cleanse the altar when you make atonement for it. You shall anoint it, to sanctify it.

Leviticus 8:11
He sprinkled it on the altar seven times, and anointed the altar and all its vessels, and the basin and its base, to sanctify them.

1 Kings 8:64
The same day the king made the middle of the court holy that was before Yahweh’s house; for there he offered the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings, because the bronze altar that was before Yahweh was too little to receive the burnt offering, the meal offering, and the fat of the peace offerings.

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Proverbs 15:2
The tongue of the wise commends knowledge, but the mouths of fools gush out folly.

Ezekiel 13:3
The Lord Yahweh says, “Woe to the foolish prophets, who follow their own spirit, and have seen nothing!

Hosea 9:7
The days of visitation have come. The days of reckoning have come. Israel will consider the prophet to be a fool, and the man who is inspired to be insane, because of the abundance of your sins, and because your hostility is great.

Luke 6:40
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher.

Luke 11:40
You foolish ones, didn’t he who made the outside make the inside also?

1 Corinthians 15:36
You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.

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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.

Jeremiah 5:2
Though they say, ‘As Yahweh lives,’ surely they swear falsely.”

Jeremiah 8:8
“ ‘How do you say, “We are wise, and Yahweh’s law is with us?” But, behold, the false pen of the scribes has made that a lie.

John 9:40
Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

John 9:41
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

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

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Haggai 2:12
‘If someone carries holy meat in the fold of his garment, and with his fold touches bread, stew, wine, oil, or any food, will it become holy?’ ” The priests answered, “No.”

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Matthew 5:23
“If therefore you are offering your gift at the altar, and there remember that your brother has anything against you,

Matthew 15:4
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

Matthew 15:5
But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”

Matthew 15:6
he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

1 Timothy 6:3
If anyone teaches a different doctrine and doesn’t consent to sound words, the words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and to the doctrine which is according to godliness,

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Matthew 23:1
Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples,

Matthew 23:13
“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.

Matthew 23:29
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

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John 17:19
For their sakes I sanctify myself, that they themselves also may be sanctified in truth.

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Hebrews 2:11
For both he who sanctifies and those who are sanctified are all from one, for which cause he is not ashamed to call them brothers,

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1 Peter 2:5
You also as living stones are built up as a spiritual house, to be a holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God through Jesus Christ.

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