King James Version
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.(Matthew 23:14)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.(Matthew 23:15)
Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!(Matthew 23:16)
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?
And, Whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever sweareth by the gift that is upon it, he is guilty.(Matthew 23:18)
Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?(Matthew 23:19)
Whoso therefore shall swear by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.(Matthew 23:20)

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Matthew 23:17 - Cross Reference

Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift? (Matthew 23:19)
The censers of these sinners against their own souls, let them make them broad plates for a covering of the altar: for they offered them before the LORD, therefore they are hallowed: and they shall be a sign unto the children of Israel. (Numbers 16:38)
Understand, ye brutish among the people: and ye fools, when will ye be wise? (Psalm 94:8)
And thou shalt anoint the tabernacle of the congregation therewith, and the ark of the testimony, (Exodus 30:26)