Matthew 23:24

KJV1611 – Modern English

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

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  • Matt 19:24 : 24 And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
  • Matt 27:6-8 : 6 And the chief priests took the silver pieces, and said, It is not lawful to put them into the treasury, because it is the price of blood. 7 And they took counsel and bought with them the potter's field, to bury strangers in. 8 Therefore that field is called the Field of Blood to this day.
  • Luke 6:7-9 : 7 And the scribes and Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the Sabbath day; that they might find an accusation against him. 8 But he knew their thoughts, and said to the man who had the withered hand, Rise up, and stand forth in the midst. And he rose and stood forth. 9 Then said Jesus to them, I will ask you one thing; Is it lawful on the Sabbath days to do good, or to do evil? to save life, or to destroy it? 10 And looking around upon them all, he said to the man, Stretch forth your hand. And he did so: and his hand was restored whole as the other.
  • John 18:28 : 28 Then they led Jesus from Caiaphas to the hall of judgment, and it was early. But they themselves did not go into the judgment hall, lest they should be defiled, but that they might eat the Passover.
  • John 18:40 : 40 Then they all cried again, saying, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was a robber.
  • Matt 7:4 : 4 Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and behold, a plank is in your own eye?
  • Matt 23:16 : 16 Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated!

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  • Matt 23:23
    81%

    23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

  • Matt 23:25-29
    5 verses
    81%

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

    26Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

    27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

    28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

  • Matt 23:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

    14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

    15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

    16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated!

    17Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

  • Matt 23:2-5
    4 verses
    75%

    2saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

    3Therefore, whatever they ask you to observe, that observe and do; but do not do according to their works: for they say and do not.

    4For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

    5But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,

  • Luke 11:41-44
    4 verses
    74%

    41But rather give alms of such things as you have; and behold, all things are clean to you.

    42But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every kind of herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

    43Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

    44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.

  • Matt 15:14
    73%

    14Let them alone: they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into the ditch.

  • Luke 11:39
    71%

    39And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

  • Luke 6:39
    70%

    39And he spoke a parable to them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

  • Luke 11:46
    70%

    46And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

  • Matt 19:24
    70%

    24And again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 7:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3And why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but do not consider the plank in your own eye?

    4Or how can you say to your brother, 'Let me remove the speck from your eye'; and behold, a plank is in your own eye?

    5You hypocrite, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

    6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Matt 23:32-34
    3 verses
    69%

    32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

    33Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

    34Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

  • Luke 20:46-47
    2 verses
    69%

    46Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at feasts;

    47Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: they will receive greater condemnation.

  • Mark 12:39-40
    2 verses
    69%

    39the best seats in the synagogues, and the best places at feasts,

    40who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.

  • Mark 10:25
    69%

    25It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 15:7
    69%

    7You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Luke 6:41-42
    2 verses
    68%

    41And why do you behold the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not perceive the beam that is in your own eye?

    42Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

  • Luke 11:52
    68%

    52Woe to you, lawyers! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in you hindered.

  • Luke 18:25
    68%

    25For it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God.

  • Matt 23:19
    68%

    19Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

  • Luke 16:15
    68%

    15And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  • Lev 11:4
    67%

    4Nevertheless, these you shall not eat of them that chew the cud, or of them that divide the hoof: as the camel, because it chews the cud but does not divide the hoof; it is unclean to you.

  • Mark 7:13
    67%

    13Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.

  • Luke 12:1
    67%

    1Meanwhile, when there was gathered together a vast multitude of people, so much that they trampled one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

  • Mark 7:8
    67%

    8For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do.

  • Ezek 34:3
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    3You eat the fat, and clothe yourselves with the wool, you kill them that are fed: but you do not feed the flock.

  • Luke 12:56
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    56You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?

  • Matt 15:17
    67%

    17Do you not yet understand, that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly, and is cast out into the waste?