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

Now when the Pharisees heard [it] they said, "This [fellow] does not cast out demons except by Beelzebub, the ruler of the demons."

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

Then Jesus said to them, "Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the Sadducees."

"How is it you do not understand that I did not speak to you concerning bread? -- [but] to beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees."

Then they understood that He did not tell [them] 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 entangle Him in [His] talk.

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

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

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in [yourselves,] nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte, and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

"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 who swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwells in it.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier [matters] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and self-indulgence.

"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 all uncleanness.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash [their] hands in a special way, 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 eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Then He charged them, saying, "Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod."

Then they sent to Him some of the Pharisees and the Herodians, to catch Him in [His] words.

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

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the will of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.

Then the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees make the outside of the cup and dish clean, but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

"But rather give alms of such things as you have; then indeed all things are clean to you.

"Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Now the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, also heard all these things, and they derided Him.

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

Now those who were sent were from the Pharisees.

Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, "Why have you not brought Him?"

Then the Pharisees answered them, "Are you also deceived?

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

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

Now as they spoke to the people, the priests, the captain of the temple, and the Sadducees came upon them,

being greatly disturbed that they taught the people and preached in Jesus the resurrection from 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 indignation,

But some of the sect of the Pharisees who believed 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 were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, "Men [and] brethren, I am a Pharisee, the son of a Pharisee; concerning the hope and resurrection of the dead I am being judged!"

For Sadducees say that there is no resurrection -- and no angel or spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

"They knew me from the first, if they were 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 can you escape the condemnation of hell?

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."

The wicked are estranged from the womb; They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.

Which will not heed the voice of charmers, Charming ever so skillfully.

" But come here, You sons of the sorceress, You offspring of the adulterer and the harlot!

Whom do you ridicule? Against whom do you make a wide mouth [And] stick out the tongue? [Are] you not children of transgression, Offspring of falsehood,

They hatch vipers' eggs and weave the spider's web; He who eats of their eggs dies, And [from] that which is crushed a viper breaks out.

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

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

"You are of [your] father the devil, and the desires of your father you want to do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and [does not] stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own [resources,] for he is a liar and the father of it.

In this the children of God and the children of the devil are manifest: Whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor [is] he who does not love his brother.

So 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 saying in heaven, "Now salvation, and strength, and the kingdom of our God, and the power of His Christ have come, for the accuser of our brethren, who accused them before our God day and night, has been cast down.

To whom shall I speak and give warning, That they may hear? Indeed their ear [is] uncircumcised, And they cannot give heed. Behold, the word of the LORD is a reproach to them; They have no delight in it.

Flee from the midst of Babylon, And every one save his life! Do not be cut off in her iniquity, For this [is] the time of the LORD's vengeance; He shall recompense her.

"When I say to the wicked, 'You shall surely die,' and you give him no warning, nor speak to warn the wicked from his wicked way, to save his life, that same wicked [man] shall die in his iniquity; but his blood I will require at your hand.

"Again, when a righteous [man] turns from his righteousness and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he shall die; because you did not give him warning, he shall die in his sin, and his righteousness which he has done shall not be remembered; but his blood I will require at your hand.

'when he sees the sword coming upon the land, if he blows the trumpet and warns the people,

'He heard the sound of the trumpet, but did not take warning; his blood shall be upon himself. But he who takes warning will save his life.

" So you, son of man: I have made you a watchman for the house of Israel; therefore you shall hear a word from My mouth and warn them for Me.

"Therefore watch, and remember that for three years I did not cease to warn everyone night and day with tears.

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

By faith Noah, being divinely warned of things not yet seen, moved with godly fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his household, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.

Much more then, having now been justified 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, [even] Jesus who delivers us from the wrath to come.

These shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord and from the glory of His power,

when He comes, in that Day, to be glorified in His saints and to be admired among all those who believe, because our testimony among you was believed.

that by two immutable things, in which it [is] impossible for God to lie, we might have strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold of the hope set before [us.]

and said to the mountains and rocks, "Fall on us and hide us from the face of Him who sits on the throne and from the wrath of the Lamb!

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