For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you shall by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

But the Pharisees, having heard, said, "This [Man] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, ruler of the demons."

Then His disciples approached and said to Him, " You know that when the Pharisees heard this message they were offended?"

Then Jesus said to them, "Look out and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

How is it you do not perceive that I did not speak to you about bread, but to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees?"

Then they understood that He did not say to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how they might trap Him in His speech.

The same day the Sadducees, who say there is no resurrection, came to Him, and they questioned Him,

But when the Pharisees heard that He had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you travel around land and sea to make one proselyte, and whenever he becomes [one], you make him twice as much a son of hell as you.

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

He that swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwelt in it.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with [their] fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Then He charged them, saying, "Look out, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, in order that they might catch Him in [His] discourse.

Then some Sadducees came to Him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked Him, saying:

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God for themselves, because they had not been baptized by him.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but the inside of you is full of greed and evil.

Nevertheless give what is inside as alms; and see, all things are clean to you.

Woe to you Pharisees! Because you love the first seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and they were mocking Him.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank You that I am not like other men--swindlers, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector.

Now those who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

Then the attendants came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why did you not bring Him?"

Then the Pharisees answered them, "Have you also been deceived?

But this crowd which does not know the law is accursed."

Then [some] of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, "Are we blind also?"

Now while they were speaking to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

being greatly disturbed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection of the dead.

Then the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy,

But some of those from the sect of the Pharisees rose up, saying, "It is necessary to circumcise them, and to command them to keep the law of Moses."

But when Paul perceived that one part was of the Sadducees and the other of the Pharisees, he cried out in the Sanhedrin, "Men, brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection-nor angel nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

since they have known me for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?

[ 3:16] And I will put enmity between you and the woman and between your seed and her Seed, He shall bruise your head, and you shall bruise His heel.

Sinners have gone astray from the womb; they go astray from the belly; they speak lies.

which will not hear the voice of charmers, nor [heed] the charm prepared skillfully by the wise.

But draw nearby, you lawless children, the seed of adulterers and the harlot.

Against whom have you been rioting? And against whom have you opened your mouth, and against whom have you loosed your tongue? Are you not children of perdition? A lawless seed?

They have hatched vipers' eggs, and weave a spider's web; and he that is going to eat of their eggs, having crushed an addled egg, has found also in it a basilisk.

Then he said to the crowds which came out to be baptized by him, "Brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?

And even now the ax is being laid to the root of the trees. Therefore every tree which does not bear good fruit is cut down and is thrown into the fire."

You are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father you desire to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has not stood in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie, he speaks from his own [resources], for he is a liar, and the father of lies.

By this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Everyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is he who does not love his brother.

And the great dragon was cast out, that serpent of old, called the Devil and Satan, who deceives the whole world; he was cast to the earth, and his angels were cast out with him.

Then I heard a loud voice in heaven saying, "Now have come the salvation and the power and the kingdom of our God, and the authority of His Christ, because the accuser of our brothers, the [one] who accused them before our God day and night, has been thrown [out of heaven].

To whom shall I speak and testify, that he may hear? Behold, your ears are uncircumcised, and they shall not be able to hear. Behold, the word of the Lord has become a reproach to them, they will not at all desire it.

Flee from the midst of Babylon, and deliver everyone his soul; and be not overthrown in her iniquity; for it is the time of her retribution from the Lord. He is rendering to her a recompense.

When I say to the wicked, You shall surely die; and you have not warned him, to give warning to the wicked, to turn from his ways, that he should live; that wicked man shall die in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at your hand.

And when the righteous turns away from his righteousness, and commits a trespass, and I shall bring punishment before him, he shall die, because you did not warn him: he shall even die in his sins, because his righteousness shall not be remembered; but his blood will I require at your hand.

and he shall see the sword coming upon the land, and blow the trumpet, and sound an alarm to the people;

Because he heard the sound of the trumpet, and took no heed, his blood shall be upon him. But the other, because he took heed, has delivered his soul.

And you, son of man, I have set you [as] a watchman for the house of Israel, and you shall hear a word from My mouth.

Therefore be alert, remembering that for three years, night and day I did not cease, with tears, exhorting each one.

For the wrath of God is revealed from heaven upon all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who suppress the truth in unrighteousness.

By faith Noah, having being warned [By God] concerning the things not yet seen, being reverent, prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, through which he condemned the world and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Much more then, having been justified now by His blood, we shall be saved from wrath through Him.

and to wait for His Son from heaven, whom He raised from the dead, Jesus, who delivers us from the coming wrath.

These shall pay a penalty--eternal destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His might,

whenever He comes, in that Day, to be glorified among His saints and to be marveled among all those having believed, because our testimony among you was believed.

in order that through two unchangeable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we might have strong encouragement, who have fled to take hold of the hope being set before [us];

And they said to the mountains and crags, "Fall on us and hide us from [the] face of Him that sits on the throne, and from the wrath of the Lamb!

For the great day of His wrath has come, and who shall be able to stand?"