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## Matthew 23:15-16 in Context (Verses 12–19 KJV)
 
 [12 ](/kjv/matthew/23/12) And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
 
 [13 ](/kjv/matthew/23/13) ¶ But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in *yourselves*, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
 
 [14 ](/kjv/matthew/23/14) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
 
 [15 ](/kjv/matthew/23/15) Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
 
 [16 ](/kjv/matthew/23/16) Woe unto you, *ye* blind guides, which 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 ](/kjv/matthew/23/17) *Ye* fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
 
 [18 ](/kjv/matthew/23/18) And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.
 
 [19 ](/kjv/matthew/23/19) *Ye* fools and blind: for whether *is* greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?
 
[Matthew 22](/kjv/matthew/22) [Matthew 24](/kjv/matthew/24)

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