Matthew 15 - UPDV Updated Bible Version

^15:1 Then was brought to him one possessed with a demon, blind and mute: and he healed him, insomuch that the mute man spoke and saw.
^15:2 And all the multitudes were amazed, and said, Can this be the son of David?
^15:3 But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, This man does not cast out demons, but by Beelzebul the prince of the demons.
^15:4 And knowing their thoughts he said to them, Every kingdom divided against itself is brought to desolation; and every city or house divided against itself will not stand:
^15:5 and if Satan casts out Satan, he is divided against himself; how then will his kingdom stand?
^15:6 And if I by Beelzebul cast out demons, by whom do your⁺ sons cast them out? Therefore they will be your⁺ judges.
^15:7 But if I by the Spirit of God cast out demons, then the kingdom of God has come upon you⁺.
^15:8 Or how can one enter into the house of the strong [man], and spoil his goods, except he first binds the strong [man]? And then he will spoil his house.
^15:9 He who is not with me is against me, and he who does not gather with me scatters.
^15:10 Therefore I say to you⁺, Every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven to men; but the blasphemy against the Spirit will not be forgiven.
^15:11 And whoever will speak a word against the Son of Man, it will be forgiven him; but whoever will speak against the Holy Spirit, it will not be forgiven him, neither in this age, nor in that which is to come.
^15:12 But the unclean spirit, when he has gone out of the man, passes through waterless places, seeking rest, and does not find it.
^15:13 Then he says, I will return into my house from where I came out; and when he has come, he finds it empty, swept, and garnished.
^15:14 Then he goes, and takes with himself seven other spirits more evil than himself, and they enter in and dwell there: and the last state of that man becomes worse than the first.
^15:15 Then certain of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, Teacher, we want to see a sign from you.
^15:16 But he answered and said to them, An evil and adulterous generation seeks after a sign; and no sign will be given to it but the sign of Jonah the prophet.
^15:17 The men of Nineveh will stand up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for they repented at the preaching of Jonah; and look, a greater than Jonah is here.
^15:18 The queen of the south will rise up in the judgment with this generation, and will condemn it: for she came from the ends of the earth to hear the wisdom of Solomon; and look, a greater than Solomon is here.
^15:19 Now as he spoke, a Pharisee asks him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.
^15:20 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.
^15:21 And the Lord said to him, Now you⁺ Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but inside you⁺ are full from extortion and lack of self-control.
^15:22 You blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup, that its outside may become clean also.
^15:23 Woe to you⁺ Pharisees! For you⁺ tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these you⁺ ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
^15:24 Woe to you⁺ Pharisees! For you⁺ love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
^15:25 Woe to you⁺! For you⁺ are as the tombs which do not appear, and the men who walk over [them] do not know it.
^15:26 And one of the lawyers answering says to him, Teacher, in saying this you reproach us also.
^15:27 And he said, Woe to you⁺ lawyers also! For you⁺ bind loads that are heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but you⁺ yourselves will not move them with one of your⁺ fingers.
^15:28 Woe to you⁺! For you⁺ build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,
^15:29 and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in the blood of the prophets.
^15:30 Therefore you⁺ witness to yourselves, that you⁺ are sons of those who slew the prophets.
^15:31 You⁺ fill up then the measure of your⁺ fathers.
^15:32 Therefore, look, I send to you⁺ prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you⁺ will kill and persecute:
^15:33 that on you⁺ may come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the sanctuary and the altar.
^15:34 Truly I say to you⁺, All these things will come upon this generation.
^15:35 And when he came out from there, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press on [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things;
^15:36 laying wait for him, to catch something out of his mouth.
^15:37 In the mean time, when the multitude was gathered together, he began to say to his disciples first of all,
^15:38 Don't fear them: for there is nothing covered, that will not be revealed; and hid, that will not be known.
^15:39 What I tell you⁺ in the darkness, speak⁺ in the light; and what you⁺ hear in the ear, proclaim on the housetops.
^15:40 A city set on a hill can't be hid.
^15:41 Neither do [men] light a lamp, and put it under the bushel, but on the lampstand; and it shines to all who are in the house.
^15:42 And don't be afraid of those who kill the body, but are not able to kill the soul: but rather fear him who is able to destroy both soul and body in hell.
^15:43 Are not two sparrows sold for an assarion? and not one of them will fall on the ground without your⁺ Father:
^15:44 but the very hairs of your⁺ head are all numbered.
^15:45 Don't be afraid therefore: you⁺ are of more value than many sparrows.
^15:46 Everyone therefore who will confess me before men, I will also confess him before my Father who is in heaven.
^15:47 But whoever will deny me before men, I will also deny him before my Father who is in heaven.
^15:48 Don't think that I came to send peace on the earth: I didn't come to send peace, but a sword.
^15:49 For I came to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law:
^15:50 and a man's foes [will be] those of his own household.

Matthew, Chapter 15