Isaiah 1:10,16-20
Psalms 50:8-9,16-17,21,23
Matthew 23:1-12
Isaiah 1:10,16-20
(10) Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! (16) Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes. Cease to do evil. (17) Learn to do well. Seek justice. Relieve the oppressed. Judge the fatherless. Plead for the widow.” (18) “Come now, and let us reason together,” says Yahweh: “Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow. Though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool. (19) If you are willing and obedient, you shall eat the good of the land; (20) but if you refuse and rebel, you shall be devoured with the sword; for the mouth of Yahweh has spoken it.”
Psalms 50:8-9,16-17,21,23
(8) I don’t rebuke you for your sacrifices. Your burnt offerings are continually before me. (9) I have no need for a bull from your stall, nor male goats from your pens. (16) But to the wicked God says, “What right do you have to declare my statutes, that you have taken my covenant on your lips, (17) since you hate instruction, and throw my words behind you? (21) You have done these things, and I kept silent. You thought that I was just like you. I will rebuke you, and accuse you in front of your eyes. (23) Whoever offers the sacrifice of thanksgiving glorifies me, and prepares his way so that I will show God’s salvation to him.”
Matthew 23:1-12
(1) Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, (2) saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat. (3) All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don’t do their works; for they say, and don’t do. (4) For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them. (5) But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments, (6) and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues, (7) the salutations in the marketplaces, and to be called ‘Rabbi, Rabbi’ by men. (8) But don’t you be called ‘Rabbi,’ for one is your teacher, the Christ, and all of you are brothers. (9) Call no man on the earth your father, for one is your Father, he who is in heaven. (10) Neither be called masters, for one is your master, the Christ. (11) But he who is greatest among you will be your servant. (12) Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.
