Matthew 23:24

Bible in Basic English (1941)

You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

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  • Matt 19:24 : 24 And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands. 3 And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you? 4 For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death. 5 But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God; 6 There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
  • Matt 27:6-8 : 6 And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood. 7 And they made a decision to get with the silver the potter's field, as a place for the dead of other countries. 8 For this cause that field was named, The field of blood, to this day.
  • Luke 6:7-9 : 7 And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him. 8 But he had knowledge of their thoughts; and he said to the man whose hand was dead, Get up and come into the middle. And he got up and came forward. 9 And Jesus said, I put the question to you, Is it right to do good on the Sabbath or to do evil? to give life or to take it away? 10 And looking round on all of them, he said to him, Put out your hand. And he did so: and his hand was made well.
  • John 18:28 : 28 So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.
  • Matt 7:4 : 4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?
  • Matt 23:16 : 16 A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

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  • Matt 23:23
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    23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

  • Matt 23:25-29
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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.

    29 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you put up buildings for housing the dead bodies of the prophets, and make fair the last resting-places of good men, and say,

  • Matt 23:13-17
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    13 But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

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    15 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

    16 A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

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

  • Matt 23:2-5
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    2 The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;

    3 All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

    4 They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

    5 But all their works they do so as to be seen by men: for they make wide their phylacteries, and the edges of their robes,

  • Luke 11:41-44
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    41 But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

    42 But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

    43 A curse is on you, Pharisees! for your desires are for the most important seats in the Synagogues and for words of respect said to you in the market-place.

    44 A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

  • Matt 15:14
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    14 Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.

  • Luke 11:39
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    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.

  • Luke 6:39
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    39 And he gave them teaching in the form of a story, saying, Is it possible for one blind man to be guide to another? will they not go falling together into a hole?

  • Luke 11:46
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    46 And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

  • Matt 19:24
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    24 And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 7:3-6
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    3 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?

    4 Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

    5 You false one, first take out the bit of wood from your eye, then will you see clearly to take out the grain of dust from your brother's eye.

    6 Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

  • Matt 23:32-34
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    32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

    33 You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

    34 For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

  • Luke 20:46-47
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    46 Keep away from the scribes, whose pleasure it is to go about in long robes, and to have words of respect said to them in the market-places, and to take the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

    47 Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

  • Mark 12:39-40
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    39 And to have the chief seats in the Synagogues and the first places at feasts;

    40 Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

  • Mark 10:25
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    25 It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man of wealth to come into the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 15:7
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    7 You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    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?

    42 How will you say to your brother, Brother, let me take the grain of dust out of your eye, when you yourself do not see the bit of wood in your eye? O false one! first take the wood out of your eye and then you will see clearly to take the dust out of your brother's eye.

  • Luke 11:52
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    52 A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.

  • Luke 18:25
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    25 It is simpler for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a man who has much money to come into the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 23:19
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    19 You blind ones: which is greater, the offering, or the altar which makes the offering holy?

  • Luke 16:15
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    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.

  • Lev 11:4
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    4 But, at the same time, of those beasts, you may not take for food the camel, because its food comes back but the horn of its foot is not parted in two; it is unclean to you.

  • Mark 7:13
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    13 Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

  • Luke 12:1
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    1 At that time, when thousands of the people had come together, in such numbers that they were crushing one another, he said first to his disciples, Have nothing to do with the leaven of the Pharisees, which is deceit.

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    8 For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

  • Ezek 34:3
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    3 You take the milk and are clothed with the wool, you put the fat beasts to death, but you give the sheep no food.

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    56 O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?

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