Matthew 23:13-22

13“But woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not enter yourselves, nor do you let those enter who are trying to go in.

15“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel over land and sea to make one convert. And when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of Gehenna as yourself.

16“Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ‘Whoever swears by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Temple, he is obligated.’

17O fools and blind ones! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that made the gold holy?

18And you say, ‘Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the offering on it, he is obligated.’

19O blind ones! Which is greater, the offering or the altar that makes the offering holy?

20Therefore, whoever swears by the altar, swears both by the altar and everything on it.

21And whoever swears by the Temple, swears both by the Temple and by Him who dwells in it.

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