Matthew 23:29

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Luke 11:47-48 : 47 Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them. 48 Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.
  • Acts 2:29 : 29 Men and brethren, let me speak freely to you about the patriarch David, that he is both dead and buried, and his tomb is with us to this day.

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  • Matt 23:23-28
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    86%

    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.

    24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

    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.

  • Luke 11:42-48
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    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.

    45Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, by saying this you reproach us also.

    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.

    47Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    48Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

  • Matt 23:13-16
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    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!

  • Matt 23:30-36
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    30and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

    31Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

    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:

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

    36Truly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.

  • Matt 15:7
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    7You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Matt 23:2-6
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    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,

    6and love the best places at feasts and the chief seats in the synagogues,

  • Luke 6:26
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    26Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

  • Luke 11:39
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    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 16:15
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    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.

  • Mark 7:6
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    6He answered and said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

  • Luke 20:46-47
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    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.

  • Matt 5:20
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    20For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

  • Mark 15:29
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    29And those who passed by railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Ah, you who destroy the temple, and build it in three days,

  • Acts 7:52
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    52Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

  • Matt 22:18
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    18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  • Luke 11:52-53
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    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.

    53And as he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to press him vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things:

  • Mark 12:38-40
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    38Then he said to them in his teaching, 'Beware of the scribes, who desire to go around in long robes, love greetings in the marketplaces,

    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.

  • Luke 6:23
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    23Rejoice in that day, and leap for joy: for, behold, your reward is great in heaven: for in like manner did their fathers to the prophets.

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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?

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    1Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem, saying,

  • Matt 7:15
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    15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

  • Jer 23:1
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    1Woe to the shepherds who destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! says the LORD.