Jer 1:18, Eze 3:8-9, Mat 23:13-36, Luk 9:51, 11:39-54, Rom 1:16 | ESV | STEP | And I , behold , I make you this day a fortified city , an iron pillar , and bronze walls , against the whole land , against the kings of Judah , its officials , its priests , and the people of the land .

18 And I, behold, I make you this day ^aa fortified city, ^ban iron pillar, and ^cbronze walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, its officials, its priests, and the people of the land.

Ezekiel 3:8-9

8 ^dBehold, I have made your face as hard as their faces, and your forehead as hard as their foreheads. 9 Like ^eemery harder than flint have I made your forehead. ^fFear them not, nor be dismayed at their looks, for they are a rebellious house.”

Matthew 23:13-36

13 “But woe ^gto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you ^hshut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you ⁱneither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in. ^{▼▼Some manuscripts add here (or after verse 12) verse 14: Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation} 15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single ^kproselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a ^lchild of ^mhell ^{▼▼Greek Gehenna; also verse 33} as yourselves.

16 “Woe to ^oyou, ^pblind guides, who say, ^q‘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.’ 17 You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or ^rthe temple that has made the gold sacred? 18 And you say, ‘If anyone swears by the altar, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by ^sthe gift that is on the altar, he is bound by his oath.’ 19 You blind men! For which is greater, the gift or ^tthe altar that makes the gift sacred? 20 So whoever swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it. 21 And whoever swears by the temple swears by it and by ^uhim who dwells in it. 22 And whoever swears by ^vheaven swears by ^wthe throne of God and by ^xhim who sits upon it.

23 ^y“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ^zyou tithe mint and dill and ^aacumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: ^abjustice and mercy and faithfulness. ^acThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 24 You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing ^ada camel!

25 ^ae“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For ^afyou clean the outside of ^agthe cup and the plate, but inside they are full of ^ahgreed and self-indulgence. 26 You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of ^aithe cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

27 ^aj“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like ^akwhitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and ^alall uncleanness. 28 So you also ^amoutwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of ^anhypocrisy and lawlessness.

29 ^ao“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous, 30 saying, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’ 31 Thus you witness against yourselves that you are ^apsons of those who murdered the prophets. 32 ^aqFill up, then, the measure of your fathers. 33 You serpents, ^aryou brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to ^ashell? 34 ^atTherefore ^auI send you ^avprophets and wise men and ^awscribes, ^axsome of whom you will kill and crucify, and ^aysome you will ^azflog in your synagogues and ^bapersecute from town to town, 35 so that on you may come all ^bbthe righteous blood shed on earth, from the blood of righteous ^bcAbel to the blood of ^bdZechariah the son of Barachiah, ^{▼▼Some manuscripts omit the son of Barachiah} whom you murdered between ^bfthe sanctuary and ^bgthe altar. 36 Truly, I say to you, ^bhall these things will come upon this generation.

Luke 9:51

A Samaritan Village Rejects Jesus

51 When the days drew near for ^bihim to be taken up, ^bjhe set his face ^bkto go to Jerusalem.

Luke 11:39-54

39 And the Lord said to him, ^bl“Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of ^bmgreed and wickedness. 40 ^bnYou fools! ^boDid not he who made the outside make the inside also? 41 But ^bpgive as alms those things that are within, and behold, ^bqeverything is clean for you.

42 ^br“But woe to you Pharisees! For ^bsyou tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect ^btjustice and ^buthe love of God. ^bvThese you ought to have done, without neglecting the others. 43 Woe to you Pharisees! For ^bwyou love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces. 44 Woe to you! ^bxFor you are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without knowing it.”

45 One of ^bythe lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying these things you insult us also.” 46 And he said, “Woe to you ^bzlawyers also! For ^cayou load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers. 47 ^cbWoe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets whom your fathers killed. 48 ^ccSo you are witnesses and you ^cdconsent to the deeds of ^ceyour fathers, for they killed them, and you build their tombs. 49 Therefore also ^cfthe Wisdom of God said, ^cg‘I will send them ^chprophets and apostles, ^cisome of whom they will ^cjkill and persecute,’ 50 so that ^ckthe blood of all the prophets, shed ^clfrom the foundation of the world, may be ^cmcharged against this generation, 51 from the blood of ^cnAbel to the blood of ^coZechariah, who perished between ^cpthe altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be ^cqrequired of this generation. 52 Woe to you ^crlawyers! ^csFor you have taken away the key of ^ctknowledge. You ^cudid not enter yourselves, and you hindered those who were entering.”

53 As he went away from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him hard and to provoke him to speak about many things, 54 ^cvlying in wait for him, ^cwto catch him in something he might say.

Romans 1:16

The Righteous Shall Live by Faith

16 For ^cxI am not ashamed of the gospel, for it is ^cythe power of God for salvation to everyone who believes, to the Jew ^czfirst and also to ^dathe Greek.