Matthew 23:21 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

To swear an oath by the temple is to swear by it and by the one who lives there.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

ASV:

And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

BBE:

And he who takes an oath by the Temple, takes it by the Temple and by him whose house it is.

DBY:

And he that swears by the temple swears by it and by him that dwells in it.

ERV:

And he that sweareth by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

WEY:

he who swears by the Sanctuary swears both by it and by Him who dwells in it;

WBS:

And whoever shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth in it.

WEB:

He who swears by the temple, swears by it, and by him who was living in it.

YLT:

and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

Matthew 23:21 Cross References

XREF:

1 Kings 8:13 "I have surely built You a lofty house, A place for Your dwelling forever."

Psalm 26:8 O LORD, I love the habitation of Your house And the place where Your glory dwells.

Psalm 132:14 "This is My resting place forever; Here I will dwell, for I have desired it. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

23:21,22 Swear by the temple. Oaths that did they not call binding, Jesus traces to God himself. Compare Mt 5:35. The meaning is that all oaths are by God. There are no distinctions.

MHC:

23:13-33 The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have the credit and advantage of making converts. Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests. They were very strict and precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless and loose in weightier matters. It is not the scrupling a little sin that Christ here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, and then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin. While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous. We are really, what we are inwardly. Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart and spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show. The deceitfulness of sinners' hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, that we should not have despised and rejected him, as men then did; yet Christ in his Spirit, in his word, in his ministers, is still no better treated. And it is just with God to give those up to their hearts' lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them. Christ gives men their true characters.

CONC:

Dwelleth Dwelling Dwells Oath Sanctuary Swear Sweareth Swears Takes Temple Therein Within

Dwelleth Dwelling Dwells House Oath Sanctuary Swear Sweareth Swears Temple Therein Within

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