Matthew 23:29
Wo be vnto you, Scribes & Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
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- Luke 11:47-48 : 47 Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.
- Acts 2:29 : 29 Men and brethren, I may boldly speake vnto you of the Patriarke Dauid, that hee is both dead and buried, and his sepulchre remaineth with vs vnto this day.
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- Matt 23:23-286 verses86%
23Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye tithe mynt, & annyse, & cummyn, & leaue the weightier matters of the law, as iudgement, and mercy and fidelitie. These ought ye to haue done, and not to haue left the other.
24Ye blinde guides, which straine out a gnat, and swallowe a camell.
25Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.
26Thou blinde Pharise, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be cleane also.
27Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.
28So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.
- Luke 11:42-487 verses84%
42But wo be to you, Pharises: for ye tithe the mynt and the rewe, and all maner herbs, and passe ouer iudgement & the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to haue left the other vndone.
43Wo be to you, Pharises: for ye loue the vppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.
44Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.
45Then answered one of the Lawyers, and saide vnto him, Master, thus saying thou puttest vs to rebuke also.
46And he sayde, Wo be to you also, yee Lawyers: for yee lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and yee your selues touche not the burdens with one of your fingers.
47Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.
48Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.
- Matt 23:13-164 verses81%
13Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.
14Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.
15Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and land to make one of your profession: and when he is made, ye make him two folde more the childe of hell, then you your selues.
16Wo be vnto you blinde guides, which say, Whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the Temple, he offendeth.
- Matt 23:30-367 verses76%
30And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.
31So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.
32Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.
33O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!
34Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,
35That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.
36Verely I say vnto you, all these things shall come vpon this generation.
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7O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,
- Matt 23:2-65 verses73%
2Saying, The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate.
3All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and doe: but after their workes doe not: for they say, and doe not.
4For they binde heauie burdens, & grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.
5All their workes they doe for to be seene of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the frindges of their garments,
6And loue the chiefe place at feastes, and to haue the chiefe seates in the assemblies,
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26Wo be to you when all men speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.
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39And the Lord saide to him, In deede yee Pharises make cleane the outside of the cuppe, and of the platter: but the inwarde part is full of rauening and wickednesse.
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15Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.
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6Then hee answered and sayd vnto them, Surely Esay hath prophecied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with lippes, but their heart is farre away from me.
- Luke 20:46-472 verses70%
46Beware of the Scribes, which willingly go in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets, and the hiest seates in the assemblies, and the chiefe roomes at feastes:
47Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.
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20For I say vnto you, except your righteousnes exceede the righteousnes of the Scribes and Pharises, ye shall not enter into the kingdome of heauen.
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29And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Hey, thou that destroyest the Temple, & buildest it in three dayes,
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52Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? & they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,
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18But Iesus perceiued their wickednes, and sayd, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
- Luke 11:52-532 verses68%
52Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.
53And as he sayde these things vnto them, the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore, and to prouoke him to speake of many things,
- Mark 12:38-403 verses68%
38Moreouer he saide vnto them in his doctrine, Beware of the Scribes which loue to goe in long robes, & loue salutations in the markets,
39And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the first roumes at feastes,
40Which deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers. These shall receiue the greater damnation.
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23Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.
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56Hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the earth, and of the skie: but why discerne ye not this time?
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1Then came to Iesus the Scribes and Pharises, which were of Hierusalem, saying,
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15Beware of false prophets, which come to you, in sheepes clothing, but inwardly they are rauening wolues.
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1Wo be vnto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheepe of my pasture, saith the Lorde.