Matthew 23:31

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So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death.

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Referenced Verses

  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men; 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have made the decision to be the servants of the Lord. And they said, We are witnesses.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your mouth is guided by your sin, and you have taken the tongue of the false for yourself. 6 It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 The evil of their tongues is the cause of their fall; all those who see them are shaking their heads at them.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 He said to him, By the words of your mouth you will be judged, you bad servant. You had knowledge that I am a hard man, taking up what I have not put down and getting in grain where I have not put seed;

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  • Matt 23:28-30
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    28Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

    29A 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,

    30If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets.

  • Luke 11:47-51
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    47A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

    48So you are witnesses and give approval to the work of your fathers; for they put them to death and you make their last resting-places.

    49For this reason the wisdom of God has said, I will send them prophets and teachers, and to some of them they will give death and cruel pains;

    50So that punishment may come on this generation for the blood of all the prophets which was given from the earliest days;

    51From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who was put to death between the altar and the Temple. Yes, I say to you, It will come on this generation.

  • Matt 23:32-38
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    32Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.

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

    34For 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;

    35So that on you may come all the blood of the upright on the earth, from the blood of upright Abel to the blood of Zachariah, son of Barachiah, whom you put to death between the Temple and the altar.

    36Truly I say to you, All these things will come on this generation.

    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who are sent to her! Again and again would I have taken your children to myself as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, and you would not!

    38See, your house is made waste.

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    51You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

    52Which of the prophets was not cruelly attacked by your fathers? and they put to death those who gave them the news of the coming of the Upright One; whom you have now given up and put to death;

  • Luke 24:48
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    48You are witnesses of these things.

  • Matt 10:21
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    21And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child: and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15And put to death the Lord of life; whom God gave back from the dead; of which fact we are witnesses.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men;

  • Mark 13:12
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    12And brother will give up brother to death, and the father his child; and children will go against their fathers and mothers, and put them to death.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40So take care that these words of the prophets do not come true for you;

  • Luke 21:16
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    16But you will be given up even by your fathers and mothers, your brothers and relations and friends; and some of you will be put to death.

  • Luke 6:23
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    23Be glad in that day, and be lifted up for joy, for your reward in heaven will be great: for their fathers did these same things to the prophets.

  • Luke 13:34
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    34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, putting to death the prophets, and stoning those who were sent to her! again and again would I have taken your children to myself, as a bird takes her young ones under her wings, but you would not!

  • John 8:37-41
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    37I am conscious that you are Abraham's seed; but you have a desire to put me to death because my word has no place in you.

    38I say the things which I have seen in my Father's house: and you do the things which come to you from your father's house.

    39In answer they said to him, Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children you would do what Abraham did.

    40But now you have a desire to put me to death, a man who has said to you what is true, as I had it from God: Abraham did not do that.

    41You are doing the works of your father. They said to him, We are true sons of Abraham; we have one Father, who is God.

  • Luke 22:71
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    71And they said, What more need have we of witness? we have the very words of his mouth.

  • Acts 3:24-25
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    24And all the prophets from Samuel and those who came after, every one of them, gave word of these days.

    25You are the sons of the prophets, and of the agreement which God made with your fathers, saying to Abraham, Through your seed a blessing will come on all the families of the earth.

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

  • Jer 2:30
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    30I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.

  • Jas 5:6
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    6You have given your decision against the upright man and have put him to death. He puts up no fight against you.

  • Zech 1:5
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    5Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

  • Luke 6:26
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    26Unhappy are you when all men give you their approval: for so their fathers did to the false prophets.

  • Lam 4:13
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    13It is because of the sins of her prophets and the evil-doing of her priests, by whom the blood of the upright has been drained out in her.

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Make clear by your acts that your hearts have been changed; and do not say to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father: for I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children of Abraham.

  • Luke 21:13
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    13And it will be turned to a witness for you.

  • Matt 21:38-39
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    38But when the workmen saw the son, they said among themselves, This is he who will one day be the owner of the property; come, let us put him to death and take his heritage.

    39And they took him and, driving him out of the vine-garden, put him to death.

  • Acts 13:27
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    27For the men of Jerusalem and their rulers, having no knowledge of him, or of the sayings of the prophets which come to their ears every Sabbath day, gave effect to them by judging him.

  • Matt 5:21
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    21You have knowledge that it was said in old times, You may not put to death; and, Whoever puts to death will be in danger of being judged:

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    6It is by your mouth, even yours, that you are judged to be in the wrong, and not by me; and your lips give witness against you.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Make ready a place of death for his children, because of the evil-doing of their father; so that they may not come up and take the earth for their heritage, covering the face of the world with waste places.

  • Matt 5:12
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    12Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.

  • Jer 26:15
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    15Only be certain that, if you put me to death, you will make yourselves and your town and its people responsible for the blood of one who has done no wrong: for truly, the Lord has sent me to you to say all these words in your ears.