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Matthew 23:4-6
Living Bible
Matthew 23:4-6
Living Bible
4 They load you with impossible demands that they themselves don’t even try to keep.
5 “Everything they do is done for show. They act holy[a] by wearing on their arms little prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and by lengthening the memorial fringes of their robes. 6 And how they love to sit at the head table at banquets and in the reserved pews in the synagogue!
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- Matthew 23:5 act holy, implied. wearing . . . little prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, literally, “enlarging their phylacteries.”
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