Matthew 23:5
Good News Translation
They do everything so that people will see them. Look at the straps with scripture verses on them which they wear on their foreheads and arms, and notice how large they are! Notice also how long are the tassels on their cloaks!

New Revised Standard Version
They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.

Contemporary English Version
Everything they do is just to show off in front of others. They even make a big show of wearing Scripture verses on their foreheads and arms, and they wear big tassels for everyone to see.

New American Bible
All their works are performed to be seen. They widen their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Douay-Rheims Bible
And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

all.

Matthew 6:1-16 Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven. . . .

2 Kings 10:16 And said to him: Come with me, and see my zeal for the Lord. So he made him ride in his chariot,

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Luke 20:47 Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 21:1 And looking on, he saw the rich men cast their gifts into the treasury.

John 5:44 How can you believe, who receive glory one from another: and the glory which is from God alone, you do not seek?

John 7:18 He that speaketh of himself seeketh his own glory: but he that seeketh the glory of him that sent him, he is true and there is no injustice in him.

John 12:43 For they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God.

Philippians 1:15 Some indeed, even out of envy and contention: but some also for good will preach Christ.

Philippians 2:3 Let nothing be done through contention: neither by vain glory. But in humility, let each esteem others better than themselves:

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

they make.

Deuteronomy 6:8 And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Proverbs 3:3 And thou shalt find grace, and good understanding before God and men.

Proverbs 6:21-23 When thou walkest, let them go with thee: when thou sleepest, let them keep thee, and when thou awakest, talk with them. . . .

the borders.

Matthew 9:20 And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.

Numbers 15:38,39 Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue: . . .

Deuteronomy 22:12 Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
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. 5And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes. 6And they love the first places at feasts and the first chairs in the synagogues,…
Cross References
Exodus 13:9
And it shall be as a sign in thy hand, and as a memorial before thy eyes; and that the law of the Lord be always in thy mouth, for with a strong hand the Lord hath brought thee out of the land of Egypt.

Numbers 15:38
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt tell them to make to themselves fringes in the corners of their garments, putting in them ribands of blue:

Deuteronomy 6:8
And thou shalt bind them as a sign on thy hand, and they shall be and shall move between thy eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:18
Lay up these words in your hearts and minds, and hang them for a sign on your hands, and place them between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 22:12
Thou shalt make strings in the hem at the four corners of thy cloak, wherewith thou shalt be covered.

Matthew 6:1
Take heed that you do not your justice before men, to be seen by them: otherwise you shall not have a reward of your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 6:2
Therefore when thou dost an alms-deed, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be honoured by men. Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:5
And when ye pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites, that love to stand and pray in the synagogues and corners of the streets, that they may be seen by men: Amen I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 9:20
And behold a woman who was troubled with an issue of blood twelve years, came behind him, and touched the hem of his garment.

Matthew 23:4
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