Luke 11:41-47

⁴¹Give money to those who are poor. Give according to what you know within your ◄inner beings /hearts ► that you should give. Then you will be surprised to realize that you will be acceptable to God without having to perform all those rituals about washing.

⁴²But there will be terrible punishment for you Pharisees! You give to God a tenth of all you produce, even the various herbs that you grow, but you do not remember that you must act justly toward others and love God! It is good to give a tenth of your income to God, but you ought to do these other things also!

⁴³There will be terrible punishment for you Pharisees, because you like to sit in the best seats in our worship places so that people will think highly of you, and you like people to greet you respectfully in the marketplaces.

⁴⁴There will be terrible punishment for you, because you are like ground where there is no marker to indicate that there is a grave underneath. People walk there, but they cannot see what is rotten down below MET! Similarly, people who see you do not realize how polluted you are within yourselves.”

⁴⁵One of those who taught the Jewish laws replied, “Teacher, by saying this you (sg) are criticizing us also!”

⁴⁶Jesus said, “It will be terrible also for you who teach the Jewish laws! You require people to obey many rules that are difficult to obey MET. That is like making them carry heavy burdens on their backs. But you yourselves do not obey the laws that you require others to obey. (OR, you do not do anything to help others to obey the laws.)

⁴⁷There will be terrible punishment for you! You decorate the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed, but you do not live according to what the prophets taught.