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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:27 · WEB

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ગુજરાતીમાથ્થી ૨૩:૨૭
ઓ શાસ્ત્રીઓ તથા ફરોશીઓ, ઢોંગીઓ, તમને અફસોસ છે! કેમ કે તમે ધોળેલી કબરના જેવા છો, જે બહારથી શોભાયમાન દેખાય છે ખરી, પણ અંદર મૃતકનાં હાડકાં તથા દરેક અશુદ્ધિથી ભરેલી છે.
हिन्दीमत्ती २३:२७
“हे कपटी शास्त्रियों, और फरीसियों, तुम पर हाय! तुम चूना फिरी हुई कब्रों के समान हो जो ऊपर से तो सुन्दर दिखाई देती हैं, परन्तु भीतर मुर्दों की हड्डियों और सब प्रकार की मलिनता से भरी हैं।

In context

25“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

27“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones and of all uncleanness.

28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

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