15A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.
16A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
17You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
18And, Whoever takes an oath by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the offering which is on it, he is responsible.
19You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?
20He, then, who takes an oath by the altar, takes it by the altar and by all things on it.
