Matthew 23:32

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Fill up, then, the measure of your forefathers' sins!

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  • Gen 15:16 : 16 In the fourth generation, your descendants will return here, for the iniquity of the Amorites has not yet reached its full measure.
  • Num 32:14 : 14 "Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.
  • 1 Thess 2:16 : 16 They forbid us to speak to the Gentiles so that they may be saved. In this way, they constantly fill up the measure of their sins. But the wrath of God has come upon them fully.
  • Zech 5:6-9 : 6 I asked, 'What is it?' He replied, 'It is a measuring basket.' And he said, 'This is the iniquity of the people throughout the land.' 7 Then the cover of lead was lifted, and there was a woman sitting inside the basket. 8 He said, 'This is wickedness,' and he pushed her back into the basket and placed the lead cover over its mouth. 9 Then I looked up, and I saw two women coming with the wind in their wings. They had wings like those of a stork, and they lifted up the basket between heaven and earth. 10 I asked the angel who was speaking to me, 'Where are they taking the basket?' 11 He replied, 'To the land of Shinar to build a house for it. When it is prepared, it will be set there on its own base.'

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

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,

    30and you say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.'

    31So you testify against yourselves that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

  • Matt 23:33-36
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    33You serpents, you brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to hell?

    34Therefore, look, I am sending you prophets, wise men, and scribes. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town,

    35so that upon you will come all the righteous blood shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah son of Barachiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.

    36Truly, I tell you, all these things will come upon this generation.

  • Luke 11:47-48
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    47Woe to you! For you build tombs for the prophets, yet it was your ancestors who killed them.

    48So you are witnesses and approve of the deeds of your ancestors; they killed the prophets, and you build their tombs.

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    51You stiff-necked people! Your hearts and ears are still uncircumcised. You are always resisting the Holy Spirit, just as your ancestors did.

    52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One, and now you have betrayed and murdered him—

  • Num 32:14
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    14"Now you have risen in place of your ancestors, a brood of sinful men, to increase still further the fierce anger of the Lord against Israel.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare a place of slaughter for his sons because of the iniquity of their fathers. Let them not rise to possess the land or fill the face of the earth with cities.

  • Isa 65:7
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    7Your iniquities and the iniquities of your ancestors together,' says the LORD, 'because they burned incense on the mountains and reproached me on the hills; I will measure their former deeds into their laps.'

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    12And you have behaved even more wickedly than your ancestors, each one following the stubbornness of their own evil heart instead of listening to Me.

  • Matt 23:24-26
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    24Blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

    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.

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    15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as you are.

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    23Rejoice in that day and leap for joy! For behold, your reward is great in heaven, for that is how their ancestors treated the prophets.

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    48Be perfect, therefore, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

  • Lev 26:39
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    39Those of you who remain will waste away in their iniquity in the lands of your enemies; and also because of the iniquities of their ancestors, they will waste away with them.

  • Luke 3:7-8
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    7John said to the crowds coming to be baptized by him, "You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the coming wrath?"

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  • Matt 23:3-4
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    8Produce fruit in keeping with repentance.

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    38Look, your house is left to you desolate.

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    7Do not be like your ancestors and your brothers, who were unfaithful to the LORD, the God of their ancestors, so that He made them an object of horror, as you can see.

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    21Brother will betray brother to death, and a father his child; children will rise up against their parents and have them put to death.

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    7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying,

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    27Therefore, speak to the house of Israel, son of man, and say to them, 'This is what the Sovereign LORD says: Yet in this, your fathers blasphemed me by acting treacherously against me.'

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    38I speak of what I have seen in the presence of the Father, and you do what you have heard from your father."

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    17But you are full of the judgment on the wicked; justice and judgment take hold of you.

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    13You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

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    26Woe to you when everyone speaks well of you, for that is how their ancestors treated the false prophets.

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    1Then Jesus spoke to the crowds and to His disciples,

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