Matthew 23:13-15

Seven Woes to the Scribes and Pharisees

¹³ "But woe _n to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you _o shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you _p neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. ₁ ¹⁵ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single _q proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a _r child of _s hell ₂ as yourselves.

1. Cross References
   Luke 11:52
   Woe to you lawyers! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You did not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.
   
2. Cross References
   Matthew 16:19
   I will give you the keys of the kingdom of heaven, and whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.
   
3. Cross References
   Matthew 5:20
   For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.
   Matthew 21:31
   Which of the two did the will of his father?" They said, "The first." Jesus said to them, "Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you.
   Luke 7:30
   But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
   
4. Cross References
   Acts 2:10
   Phrygia and Pamphylia, Egypt and the parts of Libya belonging to Cyrene, and visitors from Rome.
   Acts 6:5
   And what they said pleased the whole gathering, and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Spirit, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolaus, a proselyte of Antioch.
   Acts 13:43
   And after the meeting of the synagogue broke up, many Jews and devout converts to Judaism followed Paul and Barnabas, who, as they spoke with them, urged them to continue in the grace of God.
   
5. Cross References
   John 17:12
   While I was with them, I kept them in your name, which you have given me. I have guarded them, and not one of them has been lost except the son of destruction, that the Scripture might be fulfilled.
   2 Thessalonians 2:3
   Let no one deceive you in any way. For that day will not come, unless the rebellion comes first, and the man of lawlessness is revealed, the son of destruction.
   
6. Cross References
   Matthew 5:29
   If your right eye causes you to sin, tear it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of your members than that your whole body be thrown into hell.