He that justifieth the wicked, and he that condemneth the just, even they both {are} abomination to the LORD.

This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.

And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

Ye have wearied the LORD with your words. Yet ye say, Wherein have we wearied {him}? When ye say, Every one that doeth evil {is} good in the sight of the LORD, and he delighteth in them; or, Where {is} the God of judgment?

They change the night into day: the light {is} short because of darkness. {short: Heb. near}

The light of the body is the eye: if therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light.

Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and leave off righteousness in the earth,

But there were false prophets also among the people, even as there shall be false teachers among you, who privily shall bring in damnable heresies, even denying the Lord that bought them, and bring upon themselves swift destruction.

For when they speak great swelling {words} of vanity, they allure through the lusts of the flesh, {through much} wantonness, those that were clean escaped from them who live in error. {clean: or, for a little, or, a while, as some read}

The light of the body is the eye: therefore when thine eye is single, thy whole body also is full of light; but when {thine eye} is evil, thy body also {is} full of darkness.

And now we call the proud happy; yea, they that work wickedness are set up; yea, {they that} tempt God are even delivered. {are set up: Heb. are built}

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

Woe unto you, {ye} blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

But if thine eye be evil, thy whole body shall be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in thee be darkness, how great {is} that darkness!

Take heed therefore that the light which is in thee be not darkness.

The vile person shall be no more called liberal, nor the churl said {to be} bountiful.

Therefore the law is slacked, and judgment doth never go forth: for the wicked doth compass about the righteous; therefore wrong judgment proceedeth. {wrong: or, wrested}

And one of them, {named} Caiaphas, being the high priest that same year, said unto them, Ye know nothing at all,

He that saith unto the wicked, Thou {art} righteous; him shall the people curse, nations shall abhor him:

They shall not drink wine with a song; strong drink shall be bitter to them that drink it.

If a man or woman have a plague upon the head or the beard;

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness {which} they have prescribed; {that write...: or, to the writers that write grievousness}