...confronted them: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters...mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone. (Matthew 23:23) Like a degenerative disease that progresses until it controls...

...grain that the field produced year by year." Deuteronomy 14:22 "For you pay tithe and anise and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law:...mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone." Matthew 23:23 The Bible is clear that Christians are to give one-tenth...

...says, "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law:...mercy and faith. These you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone." Faithfulness must be demonstrated in every area of our Christian lives....

...within it. "And he who swears by heaven, swears both by the throne of God and by Him who sits upon it. "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For...dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness; but these are the things you should have...

...control the depends upon the believer's determination to be transformed — from the sfaiani-out. 23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you...dill and cummin, and have neglected the weightier provisions of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness [incidentally, these are qualities of loving...

...remonstrated with them for their mechanical application and wrong motive: "you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to havg done, without neglecting the others" (Matthew 23:23). Faith and obedient works of charity will...

...they are paralleled in Luke 1 1 . 23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith. It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. 24You blind guides! You strain...

...means loving the neighbor in need. To those who fail to do this, like the Pharisees who "tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith," Jesus said, "It is these you ought to have practiced without neglecting the others. . . . You strain...

...law. This is reinforced later in his attack on the Pharisees' interpretation, that they 'tithe mint, dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith' (23.23). However, the concentrated denunciation of the scribes and the Pharisees in chap. 23 is preceded...

...for evil behavior; Jesus speaks like a prophet when he says the Pharisees have been concerned with "dill, and cummin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faith" (Matt 23:23). A prophet has to attack "greed and self-indulgence" (Matt 23:25) in order to defend justice...