Then Jesus spoke to the crowd and to His disciples saying, "The scribes and the Pharisees (religious leaders) sit in Moses' seat. Therefore, whatever they tell you to observe, that observe and do, but do not do according to their works; for they say and do not do.
"For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
"But all their works they do to be seen of men. They make their phylacteries (a religious symbol) broad and enlarge the borders of their garments.
"They love:
the best places at feasts
and the best seats in the churches
to be recognized in the marketplaces
and to be called religious teachers.
"But woe to you scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither go in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in. Woe to you, scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. Woe to you, scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites! For you travel land and sea to win one proselyte (convert or follower) and when he is won, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
"Woe to you, scribes and Pharasees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.
"Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness."