9. And don’t address anyone here on earth as ‘Father,’ for only God in heaven is your spiritual Father.
10. And don’t let anyone call you ‘Teacher,’ for you have only one teacher, the Messiah.
11. The greatest among you must be a servant.
12. But those who exalt themselves will be humbled, and those who humble themselves will be exalted.
13. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you shut the door of the Kingdom of Heaven in people’s faces. You won’t go in yourselves, and you don’t let others enter either.
15. “What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
16. “Blind guides! What sorrow awaits you! For you say that it means nothing to swear ‘by God’s Temple,’ but that it is binding to swear ‘by the gold in the Temple.’
17. Blind fools! Which is more important—the gold or the Temple that makes the gold sacred?