Matthew 23:3
Good News Translation
So you must obey and follow everything they tell you to do; do not, however, imitate their actions, because they don't practice what they preach.

New Revised Standard Version
therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it; but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

Contemporary English Version
So obey everything they teach you, but don't do as they do. After all, they say one thing and do something else.

New American Bible
Therefore, do and observe all things whatsoever they tell you, but do not follow their example. For they preach but they do not practice.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not.

whatsoever.

Matthew 15:2-9 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the ancients? For they wash not their hands when they eat bread. . . .

Exodus 18:19,20,23 But hear my words and counsels, and God shall be with thee. Be thou to the people in those things that pertain to God, to bring their words to him: . . .

Deuteronomy 4:5 You know that I have taught you statutes and justices, as the Lord my God hath commanded me: so shall you do them in the land which you shall possess:

Deuteronomy 5:27 Approach thou rather: and hear all things that the Lord our God shall say to thee, and thou shalt speak to us, and we will hear and will do them.

Deuteronomy 17:9-12 And thou shalt come to the priests of the Levitical race, and to the judge, that shall be at that time: and thou shalt ask of them, and they shall shew thee the truth of the judgment. . . .

2 Chronicles 30:12 But the hand of God was in Juda, to give them one heart to do the word of the Lord, according to the commandment of the king, and of the princes.

Acts 5:29 But Peter and the apostles answering, said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

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Romans 13:1 Let every soul be subject to higher powers. For there is no power but from God: and those that are ordained of God.

for.

Matthew 21:30 And coming to the other, he said in like manner. And he answering said: I go, Sir. And he went not.

Psalm 50:16-20 But to the sinner God hath said: Why dost thou declare my justices, and take my covenant in thy mouth? . . .

Romans 2:19-24 Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness, . . .

2 Timothy 3:5 Having an appearance indeed of godliness but denying the power thereof. Now these avoid.

Titus 1:16 They profess that they know God: but in their works they deny him: being abominable and incredulous and to every good work reprobate.

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
2Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. 3All things therefore whatsoever they shall say to you, observe and do: but according to their works do ye not. For they say, and do not. 4For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.…
Cross References
Matthew 23:2
Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses.

Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

Romans 2:21
Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

Matthew 23:2
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