Woe to You, Hypocrites!

Lord, it is very easy to take up Matthew 23 as a curse anathematizing people we hate (like Trump, or Democrats), where it's easy for us to see their hypocrisy: Woe to you ________, hypocrites! ...

The challenge in cursing (the way Jesus does) is how to read/say/apply these words to someone else without any sense of pride/hate/self-congratulation... (e.g. the moment we think Thank you Lord that I am not like other men... (c.f. Luke 18:11) we are practicing the very thing Jesus condemned the Pharisees for; this parable is explicit – such attitudes will not be justified in God's sight!)

Whoever is without pride/hate/self-congratulation, let him go ahead and cast the Matthew 23 stones...