Matthew 23:5

5 They do all their deeds to be yseen by others. For they make their zphylacteries broad and their afringes long,

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Matthew 6:1
“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Matthew 23:28
So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Exodus 13:9
And it shall be to you as a sign on your hand and as a memorial between your eyes, that the law of the LORD may be in your mouth. For with a strong hand the LORD has brought you out of Egypt.

Exodus 13:16
It shall be as a mark on your hand or frontlets between your eyes, for by a strong hand the LORD brought us out of Egypt.”

Deuteronomy 6:8
You shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Deuteronomy 11:18
“You shall therefore lay up these words of mine in your heart and in your soul, and you shall bind them as a sign on your hand, and they shall be as frontlets between your eyes.

Numbers 15:38–39
“Speak to the people of Israel, and tell them to make tassels on the corners of their garments throughout their generations, and to put a cord of blue on the tassel of each corner. And it shall be a tassel for you to look at and remember all the commandments of the LORD, to do them, not to follow after your own heart and your own eyes, which you are inclined to whore after.

Deuteronomy 22:12
“You shall make yourself tassels on the four corners of the garment with which you cover yourself.


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ch. 21:5; [Isa. 15:2; Jer. 9:26; 48:37]