Luke 11:40

Bible in Basic English (1941)

O you foolish ones! did not he who made the outside in the same way make the inside?

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  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?
  • 1 Cor 15:36 : 36 Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 And again, if the fathers of our flesh gave us punishment and had our respect, how much more will we be under the authority of the Father of spirits, and have life?
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.
  • Gen 1:26 : 26 And God said, Let us make man in our image, like us: and let him have rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the air and over the cattle and over all the earth and over every living thing which goes flat on the earth.
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 And the Lord God made man from the dust of the earth, breathing into him the breath of life: and man became a living soul.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then falling down on their faces they said, O God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, because of one man's sin will your wrath be moved against all the people?
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.
  • Ps 33:15 : 15 He makes all their hearts; their works are clear to him.
  • Ps 75:4-5 : 4 I say to the men of pride, Let your pride be gone: and to the sinners, Let not your horn be lifted up. 5 Let not your horn be lifted up: let no more words of pride come from your outstretched necks.
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise? 9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, you simple ones, will foolish things be dear to you? and pride a delight to the haters of authority? how long will the foolish go on hating knowledge?
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The word of the Lord about Israel. The Lord by whom the heavens are stretched out and the bases of the earth put in place, and the spirit of man formed inside him, has said:
  • Matt 23:17 : 17 You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?
  • Matt 23:26 : 26 You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

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  • 81%

    38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he was surprised because he came to the meal without first washing himself.

    39 And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

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    25 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

    26 You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

    27 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

    28 Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

  • 41 But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

  • 17 You foolish ones and blind: which is greater, the gold, or the Temple which makes the gold holy?

  • Mark 7:15-20
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    15 There is nothing outside the man which, going into him, is able to make him unclean: but the things which come out of the man are those which make the man unclean.

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    17 And when he had gone into the house away from all the people, his disciples put questions to him about the saying.

    18 And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

    19 Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

    20 And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

  • 50 Did not my hand make all these things?

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    16 And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?

    17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?

  • 19 You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

  • 33 Wisdom has her resting-place in the mind of the wise, but she is not seen among the foolish.

  • 36 Who has put wisdom in the high clouds, or given knowledge to the lights of the north?

  • 11 Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

  • 15 And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

  • 23 All these evil things come from inside, and make the man unclean.

  • Ps 94:8-9
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    8 Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?

    9 Has he by whom your ears were planted no hearing? or is he blind by whom your eyes were formed?

  • 11 And you made a place between the two walls for storing the waters of the old pool: but you gave no thought to him who had done this, and were not looking to him by whom it had been purposed long before.

  • 10 Like an archer wounding all who go by, is a foolish man overcome by drink.

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    18 Let no man have a false idea. If any man seems to himself to be wise among you, let him become foolish, so that he may be wise.

    19 For the wisdom of this world is foolish before God. As it is said in the holy Writings, He who takes the wise in their secret designs:

  • 5 Become expert in reason, O you simple ones; you foolish ones, take training to heart.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    4 Do not give to the foolish man a foolish answer, or you will be like him.

    5 Give a foolish man a foolish answer, or he will seem wise to himself.

  • 20 Where is the wise? where is he who has knowledge of the law? where is the man of this world who has a love of discussion? has not God made foolish the wisdom of this world?

  • 16 You are turning things upside down! Is the wet earth the same to you as the one who is forming it? will the thing made say of him who made it, He made me not: or the thing formed say of him who gave it form, He has no knowledge?

  • 15 Did not God make him as well as me? did he not give us life in our mothers' bodies?

  • 41 And why do you take note of the grain of dust in your brother's eye, but take no note of the bit of wood which is in your eye?

  • 20 But God said to him, You foolish one, tonight I will take your soul from you, and who then will be the owner of all the things which you have got together?

  • 17 And he gave them teaching, and said to them, Is it not in the Writings, My house is to be named a house of prayer for all the nations? but you have made it a hole of thieves.

  • 16 How will money in the hand of the foolish get him wisdom, seeing that he has no sense?

  • 1 <To the chief music-maker. Of David.> The foolish man has said in his heart, God will not do anything. They are unclean, they have done evil works; there is not one who does good.

  • 6 Your desire is for what is true in the inner parts: in the secrets of my soul you will give me knowledge of wisdom.

  • 36 If, then, all your body is light, with no part of it dark, it will be completely full of light, as when a flame with its bright shining gives you light.

  • 4 If only a clean thing might come out of an unclean! But it is not possible.

  • 21 Give ear now to this, O foolish people without sense; who have eyes but see nothing, and ears without the power of hearing:

  • 14 The heart of the man of good sense goes in search of knowledge, but foolish things are the food of the unwise.

  • 36 Foolish man, it is necessary for the seed which you put into the earth to undergo death in order that it may come to life again:

  • 25 And he said, O foolish men! how slow you are to give belief to what the prophets have said.

  • 11 This was the Lord's doing, and it is a wonder in our eyes?

  • 20 But, O man, who are you, to make answer against God? May the thing which is made say to him who made it, Why did you make me so?

  • 24 The God who made the earth and everything in it, he, being Lord of heaven and earth, is not housed in buildings made with hands;