²² If anyone makes a promise by heaven, he makes his promise by God's big chair called a throne and by God who sits on the throne.

²³ `You scribes and Pharisees will have trouble. You who are not true to yourselves! You give God a tenth part of small garden plants. But you have not done those bigger matters of the law. You have not judged in the right way. You have not been kind. You have not believed God. You should be doing these things and the other things too.

²⁴ You blind leaders! You take a fly out of your cup, but you drink down a big animal like a camel!