Matthew 23:3 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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³All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Matthew 23:3 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
Romans 2:19-24
And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness, …
Titus 1:16
They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
Acts 5:29
Then Peter and the other apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
Romans 13:1
Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-12)

We find not Christ, in all his preaching, so severe upon any sort of people as upon these scribes and Pharisees; for the truth is, nothing is more directly opposite to the spirit of the gospel than the temper and practice of that generation of men, who were made up of pride, worldliness, and tyranny, under a cloak and pretence of religion; yet these were the idols and darlings of the people, who t…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 3)

3. All therefore--that is, all which, as sitting in that seat and teaching out of that law. they bid you observe, that observe and do--The word “therefore” is thus, it will be seen, of great importance, as limiting those injunctions which He would have them obey to what they fetched from the law itself. In requiring implicit obedience to such injunctions, He would have them to recognize the author…