Matthew 22:35

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Yahweh, the hope of Israel, all who forsake you will be disappointed. Those who depart from me will be written in the earth, because they have forsaken Yahweh, the spring of living waters.

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

Behold, a certain lawyer stood up and tested him, saying, “Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?”

but you have ignored all my counsel, and wanted none of my reproof;

a time to tear, and a time to sew; a time to keep silence, and a time to speak;

Woe to those who decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers who write oppressive decrees;

For the priest’s lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Yahweh of Armies.

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the counsel of God, not being baptized by him themselves.

Now a certain Jew named Apollos, an Alexandrian by race, an eloquent man, came to Ephesus. He was mighty in the Scriptures.

Then the Pharisees went and took counsel how they might entrap him in his talk.

Then Jesus said to them, “I will ask you something: Is it lawful on the Sabbath to do good, or to do harm? To save a life, or to kill?”

Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

Jesus, answering, spoke to the lawyers and Pharisees, saying, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath?”

They, being sent on their way by the assembly, passed through both Phoenicia and Samaria, declaring the conversion of the Gentiles. They caused great joy to all the brothers.

Let’s not test Christ, as some of them tested, and perished by the serpents.

Judah is a lion’s cub. From the prey, my son, you have gone up. He stooped down, he crouched as a lion, as a lioness. Who will rouse him up?

because all those men who have seen my glory, and my signs, which I worked in Egypt and in the wilderness, yet have tempted me these ten times, and have not listened to my voice;

When the king of Israel had read the letter, he tore his clothes, and said, “Am I God, to kill and to make alive, that this man sends to me to heal a man of his leprosy? But please consider and see how he seeks a quarrel against me.”

My foot has held fast to his steps. I have kept his way, and not turned away.

His mouth is full of cursing, deceit, and oppression. Under his tongue is mischief and iniquity.

His mouth was smooth as butter, but his heart was war. His words were softer than oil, yet they were drawn swords.

because they rebelled against the words of God, and condemned the counsel of the Most High.

Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God.

“For my people are foolish. They don’t know me. They are foolish children, and they have no understanding. They are skillful in doing evil, but they don’t know how to do good.”

To whom should I speak and testify, that they may hear? Behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they can’t listen. Behold, Yahweh’s word has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

Zedekiah the king sent Jehucal the son of Shelemiah, and Zephaniah the son of Maaseiah, the priest, to the prophet Jeremiah, saying, “Pray now to Yahweh our God for us.”

Then Zedekiah the king sent and took Jeremiah the prophet to himself into the third entry that is in Yahweh’s house. Then the king said to Jeremiah, “I will ask you something. Hide nothing from me.”

Does it seem a small thing to you to have fed on the good pasture, but you must tread down with your feet the residue of your pasture? And to have drunk of the clear waters, but must you foul the residue with your feet?

They hate him who reproves in the gate, and they abhor him who speaks blamelessly.

Therefore a prudent person keeps silent in such a time, for it is an evil time.

“Behold, I send you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said to him, “Behold, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

And behold there was a man with a withered hand. They asked him, “Is it lawful to heal on the Sabbath day?” that they might accuse him.

But he answered her not a word. His disciples came and begged him, saying, “Send her away; for she cries after us.”

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

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, “Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

But Jesus held his peace. The high priest answered him, “I adjure you by the living God, that you tell us whether you are the Christ, the Son of God.”

They watched him, whether he would heal him on the Sabbath day, that they might accuse him.

The Pharisees came out and began to question him, seeking from him a sign from heaven, and testing him.

Shall we give, or shall we not give?” But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, “Why do you test me? Bring me a denarius, that I may see it.”

But Jesus, perceiving their thoughts, answered them, “Why are you reasoning so in your hearts?

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

When he returns, he finds it swept and put in order.

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

“Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kills the prophets and stones those who are sent to her! How often I wanted to gather your children together, like a hen gathers her own brood under her wings, and you refused!

They watched him and sent out spies, who pretended to be righteous, that they might trap him in something he said, so as to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.

The ones who had been sent were from the Pharisees.

and because he didn’t need for anyone to testify concerning man; for he himself knew what was in man.

They said this testing him, that they might have something to accuse him of. But Jesus stooped down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

They agreed with him. Summoning the apostles, they beat them and commanded them not to speak in the name of Jesus, and let them go.

and said, “You son of the devil, full of all deceit and all cunning, you enemy of all righteousness, will you not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?

for I didn’t shrink from declaring to you the whole counsel of God.

“Their throat is an open tomb. With their tongues they have used deceit.” “The poison of vipers is under their lips.”

Send Zenas, the lawyer, and Apollos on their journey speedily, that nothing may be lacking for them.

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

They have testified about your love before the assembly. You will do well to send them forward on their journey in a way worthy of God,

If anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, may God take away his part from the tree of life, and out of the holy city, which are written in this book.

Now Yahweh’s Spirit departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from Yahweh troubled him.

Then Saul said, “I have sinned. Return, my son David; for I will no more do you harm, because my life was precious in your eyes today. Behold, I have played the fool, and have erred exceedingly.”

King Rehoboam took counsel with the old men, who had stood before Solomon his father while he yet lived, saying, “What counsel do you give me about how to answer these people?”

Then the king of Israel gathered the prophets together, four hundred men, and said to them, “Shall we go to Ramoth Gilead to battle, or shall I forbear?” They said, “Go up; for God will deliver it into the hand of the king.”

Then I sent to him, saying, “There are no such things done as you say, but you imagine them out of your own heart.”

The words of his mouth are iniquity and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

who set out to go down into Egypt, and have not asked my advice, to strengthen themselves in the strength of Pharaoh, and to take refuge in the shadow of Egypt!

“Whom have you dreaded and feared, so that you lie, and have not remembered me, nor laid it to your heart? Haven’t I held my peace for a long time, and you don’t fear me?

transgressing and denying Yahweh, and turning away from following our God, speaking oppression and revolt, conceiving and uttering from the heart words of falsehood.

but afterwards they turned, and caused the servants and the handmaids, whom they had let go free, to return, and brought them into subjection for servants and for handmaids.

For you have dealt deceitfully against your own souls; for you sent me to Yahweh your God, saying, ‘Pray for us to Yahweh our God; and according to all that Yahweh our God says, so declare to us, and we will do it.’

“Again, when a righteous man turns from his righteousness, and commits iniquity, and I lay a stumbling block before him, he will die. Because you have not given him warning, he will die in his sin, and his righteous deeds which he has done will not be remembered; but I will require his blood at your hand.

They will eat, and not have enough. They will play the prostitute, and will not increase; because they have abandoned giving to Yahweh.

Pharisees came to him, testing him, and saying, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife for any reason?”

Pharisees came to him testing him, and asked him, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”