Matthew 23:4

KJV1611 – Modern English

For 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.

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  • Luke 11:46 : 46 And 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.
  • Acts 15:10 : 10 Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?
  • Matt 11:28-30 : 28 Come to me, all you who labor and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. 29 Take my yoke upon you, and learn from me; for I am meek and lowly in heart: and you shall find rest for your souls. 30 For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.
  • Gal 6:13 : 13 For neither do they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, so that they may boast in your flesh.
  • Acts 15:28 : 28 For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things:
  • Matt 23:23 : 23 Woe 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.
  • Rev 2:24 : 24 But to you I say, and to the rest in Thyatira, as many as do not have this doctrine, who have not known the depths of Satan, as they call them, I will put on you no other burden.

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    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,

  • Matt 23:2-3
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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.

  • Luke 11:46-47
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    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.

  • Matt 23:23-29
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    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.

    29Woe 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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    9But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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    7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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    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.

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    13For I do not mean that others should be relieved and you burdened;

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    21Thus says the LORD; Take heed to yourselves, and bear no burden on the sabbath day, nor bring it in by the gates of Jerusalem;

    22Neither carry forth a burden out of your houses on the sabbath day, neither do any work, but hallow the sabbath day, as I commanded your fathers.

    23But they obeyed not, neither inclined their ear, but made their neck stiff, that they might not hear, nor receive instruction.

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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!

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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.

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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.

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

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    10Now therefore why do you test God by putting a yoke on the neck of the disciples, which neither our fathers nor we were able to bear?

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    30For my yoke is easy, and my burden is light.

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

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    42But Jesus called them to him, and said to them, You know that those who are considered rulers over the Gentiles exercise lordship over them; and their great ones exercise authority over them.

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    12And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

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    8They eat up the sin of my people, and they set their hearts on their iniquity.

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

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    2Bear one another's burdens, and so fulfill the law of Christ.

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