Bible in Basic English
"All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not."
— Matthew 23:3, Bible in Basic English
“all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, these do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not. ”
Then Jesus said to the people and to his disciples:
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,
And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,