Matthew 16:6

But they do all their works to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

Beloved, don’t believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God, because many false prophets have gone out into the world.

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Therefore, brothers, be more diligent to make your calling and election sure. For if you do these things, you will never stumble.

Many false prophets will arise, and will lead many astray.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

Others, testing him, sought from him a sign from heaven.

Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

Turn my heart toward your statutes, not toward selfish gain.

Your boasting is not good. Don’t you know that a little yeast leavens the whole lump?

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

For we have become partakers of Christ, if we hold the beginning of our confidence firm to the end,

“ ‘Seven days you shall eat unleavened bread; even the first day you shall put away yeast out of your houses, for whoever eats leavened bread from the first day until the seventh day, that soul shall be cut off from Israel.

“You shall not covet your neighbor’s house. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his male servant, nor his female servant, nor his ox, nor his donkey, nor anything that is your neighbor’s.”

You shall eat no leavened bread with it. You shall eat unleavened bread with it seven days, even the bread of affliction (for you came out of the land of Egypt in haste) that you may remember the day when you came out of the land of Egypt all the days of your life.

You offspring of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

What was sown among the thorns, this is he who hears the word, but the cares of this age and the deceitfulness of riches choke the word, and he becomes unfruitful.

He spoke another parable to them. “The Kingdom of Heaven is like yeast, which a woman took, and hid in three measures of meal, until it was all leavened.”

You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

For I know that after my departure, vicious wolves will enter in among you, not sparing the flock.

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess all of these.

Don’t be deceived! “Evil companionships corrupt good morals.”

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

Set your mind on the things that are above, not on the things that are on the earth.

and to wait for his Son from heaven, whom he raised from the dead: Jesus, who delivers us from the wrath to come.

For God is not unrighteous, so as to forget your work and the labor of love which you showed toward his name, in that you served the saints, and still do serve them.

Be free from the love of money, content with such things as you have, for he has said, “I will in no way leave you, neither will I in any way forsake you.”

It came to pass, when they had taken them out, that he said, “Escape for your life! Don’t look behind you, and don’t stay anywhere in the plain. Escape to the mountains, lest you be consumed!”

There shall be no yeast found in your houses for seven days, for whoever eats that which is leavened, that soul shall be cut off from the congregation of Israel, whether he is a foreigner, or one who is born in the land.

“You shall not offer the blood of my sacrifice with leavened bread. The fat of my feast shall not remain all night until the morning.

It shall not be baked with yeast. I have given it as their portion of my offerings made by fire. It is most holy, as are the sin offering and the trespass offering.

No yeast shall be seen with you in all your borders seven days; neither shall any of the meat, which you sacrifice the first day at evening, remain all night until the morning.

How much better it is to get wisdom than gold! Yes, to get understanding is to be chosen rather than silver.

Those who forsake the law praise the wicked; but those who keep the law contend with them.

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he who loves abundance, with increase: this also is vanity.

Yahweh of Armies says, “Don’t listen to the words of the prophets who prophesy to you. They teach you vanity. They speak a vision of their own heart, and not out of the mouth of Yahweh.

Now when they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join themselves to them with flatteries.

Her leaders judge for bribes, and her priests teach for a price, and her prophets of it tell fortunes for money: yet they lean on Yahweh, and say, “Isn’t Yahweh among us? No disaster will come on us.”

The Pharisees and Sadducees came, and testing him, asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

They sent their disciples to him, along with the Herodians, saying, “Teacher, we know that you are honest, and teach the way of God in truth, no matter whom you teach, for you aren’t partial to anyone.

saying, “The scribes and the Pharisees sat on Moses’ seat.

For there will arise false christs, and false prophets, and they will show great signs and wonders, so as to lead astray, if possible, even the chosen ones.

The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

He warned them, saying, “Take heed: beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and the yeast of Herod.”

Woe, when men speak well of you, for their fathers did the same thing to the false prophets.

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

lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

“Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber.

As they spoke to the people, the priests and the captain of the temple and the Sadducees came to them,

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

Therefore let’s keep the feast, not with old yeast, neither with the yeast of malice and wickedness, but with the unleavened bread of sincerity and truth.

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

that by two immutable things, in which it is impossible for God to lie, we may have a strong encouragement, who have fled for refuge to take hold of the hope set before us.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceful, gentle, reasonable, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

For there are certain men who crept in secretly, even those who were long ago written about for this condemnation: ungodly men, turning the grace of our God into indecency, and denying our only Master, God, and Lord, Jesus Christ.

The beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who worked the signs in his sight, with which he deceived those who had received the mark of the beast and those who worshiped his image. These two were thrown alive into the lake of fire that burns with sulfur.

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming for his baptism, he said to them, “You offspring of vipers, who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

At that time, Herod the tetrarch heard the report concerning Jesus,

How is it that you don’t perceive that I didn’t speak to you concerning bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

But the high priest rose up, and all those who were with him (which is the sect of the Sadducees), and they were filled with jealousy

A little yeast grows through the whole lump.

Unleavened bread shall be eaten throughout the seven days; and no leavened bread shall be seen with you. No yeast shall be seen with you, within all your borders.

“ ‘No meal offering which you shall offer to Yahweh shall be made with yeast; for you shall burn no yeast, nor any honey, as an offering made by fire to Yahweh.

If you stop listening to instruction, my son, you will stray from the words of knowledge.

“Be careful that you don’t do your charitable giving before men, to be seen by them, or else you have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

Then they understood that he didn’t tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

On that day Sadducees (those who say that there is no resurrection) came to him. They asked him,

They sent some of the Pharisees and the Herodians to him, that they might trap him with words.

He said to them, “Beware! Keep yourselves from covetousness, for a man’s life doesn’t consist of the abundance of the things which he possesses.”

Some of the Sadducees came to him, those who deny that there is a resurrection.

“Beware of those scribes who like to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts;

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.