Matthew 23:8-22

8But you are not to be called ‘Rabbi,’ for you have one Teacher and you are all brothers.

9And call no one your ‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.

10Nor are you to be called ‘teacher,’ for you have one teacher, the Christ.

11The greatest among you will be your servant.

12And whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.

13“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.

15“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!

16“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’

17Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

18And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’

19You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

20So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and the one who dwells in it.

22And whoever swears by heaven swears by the throne of God and the one who sits on it.