New Century Version

Matthew 23:4-6 New Century Version (NCV)

4. They make strict rules and try to force people to obey them, but they are unwilling to help those who struggle under the weight of their rules.

5. “They do good things so that other people will see them. They enlarge the little boxes holding Scriptures that they wear, and they make their special prayer clothes very long.

6. Those Pharisees and teachers of the law love to have the most important seats at feasts and in the synagogues.