Matthew 23:31

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Acts 7:51-52 : 51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you. 52 Which 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,
  • 1 Thess 2:15-16 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men: 16 Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; but the wrath has come upon them to the utmost.
  • Josh 24:22 : 22 And Joshua said to the people, You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen the LORD, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.
  • Job 15:5-6 : 5 For your mouth declares your iniquity, and you choose the tongue of the crafty. 6 Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.
  • Ps 64:8 : 8 So they shall make their own tongue to fall upon themselves; all who see them shall flee away.
  • Luke 19:22 : 22 And he said to him, Out of your own mouth I will judge you, wicked servant. You knew that I was an austere man, taking up what I did not lay down, and reaping what I did not sow.

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  • Matt 23:28-30
    3 verses
    82%

    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,

    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.

  • Luke 11:47-51
    5 verses
    81%

    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.

    49Therefore the wisdom of God also said, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute:

    50That the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation;

    51From the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who perished between the altar and the temple: truly I say to you, It shall be required of this generation.

  • Matt 23:32-38
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    81%

    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.

    37O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets and stone those who are sent to you, how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her chicks under her wings, but you were not willing!

    38See, your house is left to you desolate.

  • Acts 7:51-52
    2 verses
    78%

    51You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

    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,

  • Luke 24:48
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    48And you are witnesses of these things.

  • Matt 10:21
    71%

    21And brother shall deliver up brother to death, and the father the child; and the children shall rise against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Acts 3:15
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    15And killed the Prince of life, whom God has raised from the dead; of which we are witnesses.

  • 1 Thess 2:15
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    15Who both killed the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they do not please God, and are contrary to all men:

  • Mark 13:12
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    12Now brother shall betray brother to death, and father the son; and children shall rise up against their parents, and cause them to be put to death.

  • Acts 13:40
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    40Beware therefore, lest that come upon you, which is spoken of in the prophets;

  • Luke 21:16
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    16And you shall be betrayed both by parents, brothers, relatives, and friends; and some of you they shall cause to be put to death.

  • 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.

  • Luke 13:34
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    34O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, you who kill the prophets, and stone those who are sent to you; how often I wanted to gather your children together, as a hen gathers her brood under her wings, but you were not willing!

  • John 8:37-41
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    69%

    37I know that you are Abraham's descendants; but you seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you.

    38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and you do what you have seen with your father.

    39They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus said to them, If you were Abraham's children, you would do the works of Abraham.

    40But now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth, which I have heard from God: Abraham did not do this.

    41You do the deeds of your father. Then they said to him, We were not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God.

  • Luke 22:71
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    71And they said, What need do we have for any further witness? For we ourselves have heard it from his own mouth.

  • Acts 3:24-25
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    24Yes, and all the prophets from Samuel and those who follow after, as many as have spoken, have likewise foretold of these days.

    25You are the children of the prophets, and of the covenant which God made with our fathers, saying to Abraham, And in your seed shall all the families of the earth be blessed.

  • Matt 15:7
    69%

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

  • Jer 2:30
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    30In vain have I struck your children; they received no correction: your own sword has devoured your prophets, like a destroying lion.

  • Jas 5:6
    69%

    6You have condemned and killed the righteous; and he does not resist you.

  • Zech 1:5
    68%

    5Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

  • Luke 6:26
    68%

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

  • Lam 4:13
    68%

    13For the sins of her prophets, and the iniquities of her priests, who have shed the blood of the just in her midst,

  • Luke 3:8
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    8Bring forth therefore fruits worthy of repentance, and do not begin to say within yourselves, We have Abraham as our father: for I say to you, That God is able out of these stones to raise up children to Abraham.

  • Luke 21:13
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    13And it shall turn to you for a testimony.

  • Matt 21:38-39
    2 verses
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    38But when the vine dressers saw the son, they said among themselves, This is the heir; come, let us kill him and seize his inheritance.

    39And they caught him, and cast him out of the vineyard, and killed him.

  • Acts 13:27
    68%

    27For those who dwell at Jerusalem, and their rulers, because they knew him not, nor the voices of the prophets which are read every sabbath day, have fulfilled them in condemning him.

  • Matt 5:21
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    21You have heard that it was said to those of old, 'You shall not murder,' and whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment:

  • Job 15:6
    68%

    6Your own mouth condemns you, not I; yes, your own lips testify against you.

  • Isa 14:21
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    21Prepare slaughter for his children for the iniquity of their fathers; that they do not rise, nor possess the land, nor fill the face of the world with cities.

  • Matt 5:12
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    12Rejoice and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven, for so they persecuted the prophets who were before you.

  • Jer 26:15
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    15But know for certain that if you put me to death, you will surely bring innocent blood upon yourselves, and upon this city, and upon its inhabitants; for truly the LORD has sent me to you to speak all these words in your hearing.