Luke 11:40

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You fools! Did not the one who made the outside also make the inside?

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  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'
  • 1 Cor 15:36 : 36 Foolish one, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Moreover, we have all had human fathers who disciplined us, and we respected them. How much more should we submit to the Father of spirits and live!
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  • Gen 1:26 : 26 Then God said, 'Let us make mankind in our image, after our likeness, so that they may rule over the fish of the sea, the birds of the sky, the livestock, all the earth, and all the creatures that move along the ground.'
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 Then the LORD God formed the man from the dust of the ground, breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 But Moses and Aaron fell facedown and cried out, "O God, the God who gives breath to all living things, will you be angry with the entire assembly when only one man sins?"
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.
  • Ps 33:15 : 15 He forms the hearts of them all; He understands all their deeds.
  • Ps 75:4-5 : 4 The earth and all its inhabitants are dissolving, but I have set its pillars firmly. Selah. 5 I said to the arrogant, ‘Do not boast’; and to the wicked, ‘Do not lift up your horn.’
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand? 9 Does He who formed the ear not hear? Does He who formed the eye not see?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 How long, simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight in mockery and fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 This is the Lord’s message concerning Israel. The Lord, who stretches out the heavens, lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit within humans, declares this:
  • Matt 23:17 : 17 You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
  • Matt 23:26 : 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • 81%

    38But the Pharisee was astonished to see that Jesus did not wash before the meal.

    39Then the Lord said to him, 'Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

  • 76%

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean.

    27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity.

    28So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

  • 41But now as for what is inside you—be generous to the poor, and everything will be clean for you.'

  • 17You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

  • Mark 7:15-20
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    72%

    15There is nothing outside a person that can defile him by going into him, but the things that come out of him are what defile him.

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear."

    17When He went into the house away from the crowd, His disciples asked Him about the parable.

    18And He said to them, "Are you also without understanding? Do you not realize that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then it goes out into the latrine." (In saying this, He declared all foods clean.)

    20And He continued, "What comes out of a person is what defiles him.

  • 50Did not my hand make all these things?

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    16Jesus replied, “Are you still without understanding?”

    17Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then is expelled into the latrine?

  • 19You fools and blind! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

  • 33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning, but it becomes known even among fools.

  • 36Who has put wisdom in the inward parts or given understanding to the mind?

  • 11What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

  • 15Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."

  • 23All these evils come from within and defile a person.

  • Ps 94:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8Understand this, you brutish people! Fools, when will you understand?

    9Does He who formed the ear not hear? Does He who formed the eye not see?

  • 11You made a reservoir between the walls for the water of the old pool, but you did not look to its Maker, nor did you regard the One who formed it long ago.

  • 10A master archer who wounds all and one who hires a fool or passersby are alike.

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    18Let no one deceive themselves. If anyone among you thinks they are wise in this age, let them become foolish so that they may become wise.

    19For the wisdom of this world is foolishness in God’s sight. As it is written, 'He catches the wise in their craftiness.'

  • 5Understand prudence, you simple ones; and you fools, gain a discerning heart.

  • Prov 26:4-5
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    66%

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, or you will become like him yourself.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, or he will be wise in his own eyes.

  • 20Where is the wise person? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made the wisdom of the world foolish?

  • 16You turn things upside down, as if the potter were thought to be like the clay! Shall what is formed say to the one who formed it, 'You did not make me'? Can the pot say to the potter, 'You know nothing'?

  • 15Did not the same One who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same God form us both within our mothers?

  • 41Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye?

  • 20But God said to him, 'Fool! This very night your soul will be required of you, and the things you have prepared—who will they belong to?'

  • 17As he was teaching them, he said, 'Is it not written: My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations? But you have made it a den of robbers.'

  • 16Why should a fool pay for wisdom when he has no intention of understanding it?

  • 1To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.

  • 6Against you, you alone, I have sinned and done what is evil in your sight, so that you may be justified when you speak and blameless when you judge.

  • 36So if your whole body is full of light, and no part of it is dark, it will be just as full of light as when a lamp shines its light on you.

  • 4Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.

  • 21Hear this, you foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.

  • 14The discerning heart seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • 36Foolish one, what you sow does not come to life unless it dies.

  • 25He said to them, "How foolish you are, and how slow to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

  • 11'This came from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes.'

  • 20But who are you, O man, to answer back to God? Will what is molded say to its maker, 'Why have you made me like this?'

  • 24The God who made the world and everything in it, being Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands.