^{The Holy Bible}

^Douay-Rheims

Matthew 23, 1 – 12

¹Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, 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. ⁵And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad, and enlarge their fringes. ⁶ And they love the first places at feasts, and the first chairs in the synagogues, ⁷And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi. ⁸But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master; and all you are brethren. ⁹And call none your father upon earth; for one is your father, who is in heaven. ¹⁰Neither be ye called masters; for one is you master, Christ. ¹¹He that is the greatest among you shall be your servant. ¹² And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled: and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.