Luke 11:40

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You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

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Referenced Verses

  • Luke 12:20 : 20 But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’
  • 1 Cor 15:36 : 36 Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.
  • Heb 12:9 : 9 Besides, we have experienced discipline from our earthly fathers and we respected them; shall we not submit ourselves all the more to the Father of spirits and receive life?
  • Luke 24:25 : 25 So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
  • Gen 1:26 : 26 Then God said,“Let us make humankind in our image, after our likeness, so they may rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move on the earth.”
  • Gen 2:7 : 7 The LORD God formed the man from the soil of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life, and the man became a living being.
  • Num 16:22 : 22 Then they threw themselves down with their faces to the ground and said,“O God, the God of the spirits of all people, will you be angry with the whole community when only one man sins?”
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.
  • Ps 33:15 : 15 He is the one who forms every human heart, and takes note of all their actions.
  • Ps 75:4-5 : 4 I say to the proud,“Do not be proud,” and to the wicked,“Do not be so confident of victory! 5 Do not be so certain you have won! Do not speak with your head held so high!
  • Ps 94:8-9 : 8 Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand? 9 Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?
  • Prov 1:22 : 22 “How long will you simpletons love naiveté? How long have mockers delighted in mockery? And how long will fools hate knowledge?
  • Prov 8:5 : 5 You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!
  • Jer 5:21 : 21 Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:
  • Zech 12:1 : 1 The Repentance of Judah This is an oracle, the LORD’s message concerning Israel: The LORD– he who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundations of the earth, who forms the human spirit within a person– says,
  • Matt 23:17 : 17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
  • Matt 23:26 : 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Luke 11:38-39
    2 verses
    81%

    38The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.

    39But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

  • Matt 23:25-28
    4 verses
    76%

    25“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

    27“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.

    28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

  • Luke 11:41
    75%

    41But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

  • Matt 23:17
    73%

    17Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

  • Mark 7:17-20
    4 verses
    72%

    17Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

    18He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

    20He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.

  • Acts 7:50
    71%

    50Did my hand not make all these things?’

  • Matt 15:16-17
    2 verses
    70%

    16Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

    17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

  • Matt 23:19
    70%

    19You are blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift sacred?

  • Mark 7:15
    69%

    15There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

  • Prov 14:33
    67%

    33Wisdom rests in the heart of the discerning; it is not known in the inner parts of fools.

  • Job 38:36
    67%

    36Who has put wisdom in the heart, or has imparted understanding to the mind?

  • Matt 15:11
    67%

    11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

  • Luke 16:15
    67%

    15But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.

  • Mark 7:23
    67%

    23All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

  • Ps 94:8-9
    2 verses
    67%

    8Take notice of this, you ignorant people! You fools, when will you ever understand?

    9Does the one who makes the human ear not hear? Does the one who forms the human eye not see?

  • Isa 22:11
    67%

    11You made a reservoir between the two walls for the water of the old pool– but you did not trust in the one who made it; you did not depend on the one who formed it long ago!

  • Prov 26:10
    66%

    10Like an archer who wounds at random, so is the one who hires a fool or hires any passerby.

  • 1 Cor 3:18-19
    2 verses
    66%

    18Guard against self-deception, each of you. If someone among you thinks he is wise in this age, let him become foolish so that he can become wise.

    19For the wisdom of this age is foolishness with God. As it is written,“He catches the wise in their craftiness.”

  • Prov 8:5
    66%

    5You who are naive, discern wisdom! And you fools, understand discernment!

  • Prov 26:4-5
    2 verses
    66%

    4Do not answer a fool according to his folly, lest you yourself also be like him.

    5Answer a fool according to his folly, lest he be wise in his own opinion.

  • 1 Cor 1:20
    66%

    20Where is the wise man? Where is the expert in the Mosaic law? Where is the debater of this age? Has God not made the wisdom of the world foolish?

  • Isa 29:16
    66%

    16Your thinking is perverse! Should the potter be regarded as clay? Should the thing made say about its maker,“He didn’t make me”? Or should the pottery say about the potter,“He doesn’t understand”?

  • Job 31:15
    66%

    15Did not the one who made me in the womb make them? Did not the same one form us in the womb?

  • Luke 6:41
    66%

    41Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own?

  • Luke 12:20
    66%

    20But God said to him,‘You fool! This very night your life will be demanded back from you, but who will get what you have prepared for yourself?’

  • Mark 11:17
    66%

    17Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”

  • Prov 17:16
    66%

    16What’s the point of a fool having money in hand to buy wisdom, when his head is empty?

  • Ps 14:1
    65%

    1For the music director; by David. Fools say to themselves,“There is no God.” They sin and commit evil deeds; none of them does what is right.

  • Ps 51:6
    65%

    6Look, you desire integrity in the inner man; you want me to possess wisdom.

  • Luke 11:36
    65%

    36If then your whole body is full of light, with no part in the dark, it will be as full of light as when the light of a lamp shines on you.”

  • Job 14:4
    65%

    4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

  • Jer 5:21
    65%

    21Tell them:‘Hear this, you foolish people who have no understanding, who have eyes but do not discern, who have ears but do not perceive:

  • Prov 15:14
    65%

    14The discerning mind seeks knowledge, but the mouth of fools feeds on folly.

  • 1 Cor 15:36
    65%

    36Fool! What you sow will not come to life unless it dies.

  • Luke 24:25
    65%

    25So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

  • Mark 12:11
    65%

    11This is from the Lord, and it is marvelous in our eyes’?”

  • Rom 9:20
    65%

    20But who indeed are you– a mere human being– to talk back to God? Does what is molded say to the molder,“Why have you made me like this?”

  • Acts 17:24
    65%

    24The God who made the world and everything in it, who is Lord of heaven and earth, does not live in temples made by human hands,