Isaiah 9:16
16for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.
Isaiah 56:10
10 aHis watchmen are blind;they are all without knowledge;
they are all silent bdogs;
they cannot bark,
dreaming, lying down,
loving to slumber.
Matthew 15:14
14Let them alone; cthey are blind guides. ▼▼Some manuscripts add of the blind
And eif the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.” Matthew 23:16-26
16“Woe to fyou, gblind guides, who say, h‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’ 17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or ithe temple that has made the gold sacred? 18And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by jthe gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or kthe altar that makes the gift sacred? 20So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by lhim who dwells in it. 22And whoever swears by mheaven swears by nthe throne of God and by ohim who sits upon it.23 p“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For qyou tithe mint and dill and rcumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: sjustice and mercy and faithfulness. tThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing ua camel!
25 v“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For wyou clean the outside of xthe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of ygreed and self-indulgence. 26You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of zthe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.
Romans 2:19
19and if you are sure that you yourself are aaa guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,1 Timothy 6:3-5
3If anyone abteaches a different doctrine and does not agree with acthe sound ▼▼Or healthy
words of our Lord Jesus Christ and the teaching aethat accords with godliness, 4 afhe is puffed up with conceit and agunderstands nothing. He has an unhealthy craving for ahcontroversy and for aiquarrels about words, which produce envy, dissension, slander, evil suspicions, 5and constant friction among people ajwho are depraved in mind and deprived of the truth, akimagining that godliness is a means of gain. 2 Timothy 3:13
13while alevil people and impostors will go on from bad to worse, deceiving and ambeing deceived.
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