Matthew 23:4

Geneva Bible (1560)

For 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.

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  • Luke 11:46 : 46 And 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.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Nowe therefore, why tempt ye God, to lay a yoke on the disciples neckes, which neither our fathers, nor we were able to beare?
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come vnto me, all ye that are wearie and laden, and I will ease you. 29 Take my yoke on you, and learne of me that I am meeke and lowly in heart: and ye shall finde rest vnto your soules. 30 For my yoke is easie, & my burden light.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For they themselues which are circumcised keepe not the law, but desire to haue you circumcised, that they might reioyce in your flesh.
  • Acts 15:28 : 28 For it seemed good to the holy Ghost, and to vs, to lay no more burden vpon you, then these necessary things,
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 Wo 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.
  • Rev 2:24 : 24 And vnto you I say, the rest of them of Thyatira, As many as haue not this learning, neither haue knowen the deepenes of Satan (as they speake) I will put vpon you none other burden.

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    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,

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    2Saying, The Scribes and the Pharises sit in Moses seate.

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    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.

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    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.

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    7But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men.

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