Matthew 23:16

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

`Wo to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary -- is debtor!

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  • Matt 15:14 : 14 let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'
  • Matt 5:33-35 : 33 `Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths; 34 but I -- I say to you, not to swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God, 35 nor by the earth, because it is His footstool, nor by Jerusalem, because it is a city of a great king,
  • Matt 23:24 : 24 `Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.
  • Matt 23:26 : 26 `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.
  • John 9:39-41 : 39 And Jesus said, `For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.' 40 And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, `Are we also blind?' 41 Jesus said to them, `If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
  • Matt 23:17 : 17 Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?
  • Matt 23:19 : 19 Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?
  • Jas 5:12 : 12 And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.
  • Isa 56:10-11 : 10 Blind `are' his watchmen -- all of them, They have not known, All of them `are' dumb dogs, they are not able to bark, Dozing, lying down, loving to slumber. 11 And the dogs `are' strong of desire, They have not known sufficiency, And they `are' shepherds! They have not known understanding, All of them to their own way they did turn, Each to his dishonest gain from his quarter:
  • Matt 15:5-6 : 5 but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; -- 6 and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.
  • Gal 5:3 : 3 and I testify again to every man circumcised, that he is a debtor to do the whole law;
  • Mark 7:10-13 : 10 for Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; 11 and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), `is' whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine, 12 and no more do ye suffer him to do anything for his father or for his mother, 13 setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 23:17-29
    13 verses
    86%

    17Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

    18`And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it -- is debtor!

    19Fools and blind! for which `is' greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?

    20`He therefore who did swear by the altar, doth swear by it, and by all things on it;

    21and he who did swear by the sanctuary, doth swear by it, and by Him who is dwelling in it;

    22and he who did swear by the heaven, doth swear by the throne of God, and by Him who is sitting upon it.

    23`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye give tithe of the mint, and the dill, and the cumin, and did neglect the weightier things of the Law -- the judgment, and the kindness, and the faith; these it behoved `you' to do, and those not to neglect.

    24`Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

    25`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence.

    26`Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean.

    27`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness;

    28so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and adorn the tombs of the righteous,

  • Matt 23:13-15
    3 verses
    74%

    13`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

    14`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

    15`Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen -- ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

  • Luke 11:42-44
    3 verses
    71%

    42`But wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

    43`Wo to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

    44`Wo to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

  • Matt 5:33-34
    2 verses
    70%

    33`Again, ye heard that it was said to the ancients: Thou shalt not swear falsely, but thou shalt pay to the Lord thine oaths;

    34but I -- I say to you, not to swear at all; neither by the heaven, because it is the throne of God,

  • Matt 23:3-4
    2 verses
    69%

    3all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

    4for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

  • Matt 15:14
    69%

    14let them alone, guides they are -- blind of blind; and if blind may guide blind, both into a ditch shall fall.'

  • Matt 15:5-7
    3 verses
    69%

    5but ye say, Whoever may say to father or mother, An offering `is' whatever thou mayest be profited by me; --

    6and he may not honour his father or his mother, and ye did set aside the command of God because of your tradition.

    7`Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Luke 11:46-47
    2 verses
    68%

    46and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, wo! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

    47`Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

  • Jas 5:12
    68%

    12And before all things, my brethren, do not swear, neither by the heaven, neither by the earth, neither by any other oath, and let your Yes be Yes, and the No, No; that under judgment ye may not fall.

  • Luke 16:14-15
    2 verses
    68%

    14And also the Pharisees, being lovers of money, were hearing all these things, and were deriding him,

    15and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;

  • Jer 7:4
    68%

    4Do not trust for yourselves Unto the words of falsehood, saying, The temple of Jehovah, the temple of Jehovah, The temple of Jehovah `are' they!

  • Matt 5:26
    68%

    26verily I say to thee, thou mayest not come forth thence till that thou mayest pay the last farthing.

  • Deut 27:18
    68%

    18`Cursed `is' he who is causing the blind to err in the way, -- and all the people have said, Amen.

  • Mark 12:40
    68%

    40who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretense are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

  • Lev 5:4
    68%

    4`Or when a person sweareth, speaking wrongfully with the lips to do evil, or to do good, even anything which man speaketh wrongfully with an oath, and it hath been hid from him; -- when he hath known then he hath been guilty of one of these;

  • Luke 21:5
    67%

    5And certain saying about the temple, that with goodly stones and devoted things it hath been adorned, he said,

  • Matt 12:6
    67%

    6and I say to you, that a greater than the temple is here;

  • Matt 5:36
    67%

    36nor by thy head mayest thou swear, because thou art not able one hair to make white or black;

  • Luke 11:52
    67%

    52`Wo to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

  • Mark 11:17
    67%

    17and he was teaching, saying to them, `Hath it not been written -- My house a house of prayer shall be called for all the nations, and ye did make it a den of robbers?'

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    67%

    17if any one the sanctuary of God doth waste, him shall God waste; for the sanctuary of God is holy, the which ye are.

  • Matt 21:13
    67%

    13and he saith to them, `It hath been written, My house a house of prayer shall be called, but ye did make it a den of robbers.'

  • Luke 20:46-47
    2 verses
    67%

    46`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

    47who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

  • Luke 19:46
    67%

    46saying to them, `It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'

  • Luke 6:39
    66%

    39And he spake a simile to them, `Is blind able to lead blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

  • Isa 30:22
    66%

    22And ye have defiled the covering of Thy graven images of silver, And the ephod of thy molten image of gold, Thou scatterest them as a sickening thing, `Go out,' thou sayest to it.

  • Mark 7:11
    66%

    11and ye say, If a man may say to father or to mother, Korban (that is, a gift), `is' whatever thou mayest be profited out of mine,