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Whatever therefore they tell you to observe, that observe and do. But according to their deeds, practise ye not: for they say, and do not.

They tie up heavy burdens, and lay [fn] on men's shoulders; but will not themselves touch them with their finger.

But be not ye called Rabbi; for one is your Rabbi, and ye are all brethren.

Woe to you, ye blind guides: for ye say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold that is in the temple, he is holden.

And, whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing: but whoever shall swear by the oblation upon it, he is holden.

Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear comely without, but are within full of bones of the dead and all impurity.

So ye also, outwardly, appear to men as righteous; but within, ye are full of iniquity and hypocrisy.

And ye are to hear of conflicts, and the rumor of battles. See that ye be not disquieted: for all these things must come; but the consummation is not yet.

But all these are only the commencement of sorrows.

But he that shall persevere to the end, will have life.

But woe to those with child, and to them that are nursing, in those days.

And unless those days should be cut short, no flesh would remain alive. But, for the elect's sake, those days will be cut short.

Heaven and earth will pass away; but my words shall not pass away.

But of that day and of that hour, knoweth no man, nor even the angels of heaven, but the Father only.

But know this, that if the lord of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have been awake, and would not have suffered his house to be broken into.

But if that servant, being wicked, shall say in his heart, My lord delayeth his coming;

And the foolish took their lamps, but took no oil with them.

But the wise took oil in vessels, with their lamps.

The wise answered and said: [fn] lest there should not be enough for us and for you: but go ye to them that sell, and buy for yourselves.

But he answered, and said to them: Verily I say to you, I know you not.