[23] Woe scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: ought ye to have done, and not the other undone. [24] Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel. [25] Woe scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. [26] Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. [27] Woe scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. [28] Even so also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within full of hypocrisy and iniquity. [29] Woe scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, [30] And say, If in the days fathers, we would not partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. [31] Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that the children of them which killed the prophets. [32] up then the measure fathers. [33] Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?