^{15 Ref} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he is become so, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

^{16 Ref} Woe unto you, ye blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor.

^{17 Ref} Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?

¹⁸ And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it, he is a debtor.

^{19 Ref} Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

²⁰ He therefore that sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

^{21 Ref} And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

^{22 Ref} And he that sweareth by the heaven, sweareth by the throne of God, and by him that sitteth thereon.

^{23 Ref} Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

^{24 Ref} Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!