Matthew 23:19

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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Referenced Verses

  • Exod 29:37 : 37 seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy.
  • Exod 30:29 : 29 and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 23:16-18
    3 verses
    89%

    16`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!

    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!

  • Matt 23:20-22
    3 verses
    79%

    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.

  • Exod 23:8
    70%

    8`And a bribe thou dost not take; for the bribe bindeth the open-`eyed', and perverteth the words of the righteous.

  • Luke 11:40-41
    2 verses
    70%

    40unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

    41But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

  • Matt 15:5
    69%

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

  • Heb 13:10
    69%

    10we have an altar, of which to eat they have no authority who the tabernacle are serving,

  • Matt 23:24-26
    3 verses
    68%

    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.

  • Exod 29:37
    68%

    37seven days thou dost make atonement for the altar, and hast sanctified it, and the altar hath been most holy; all that is coming against the altar is holy.

  • Mal 1:7-8
    2 verses
    68%

    7Ye are bringing nigh on Mine altar polluted bread, And ye have said: `In what have we polluted Thee?' In your saying: `The table of Jehovah -- it `is' despicable,'

    8And when ye bring nigh the blind for sacrifice, `There is no evil,' And when ye bring nigh the lame and sick, `There is no evil;' Bring it near, I pray thee, to thy governor -- Doth he accept thee? or doth he lift up thy face? Said Jehovah of Hosts.

  • Matt 12:5-7
    3 verses
    67%

    5`Or did ye not read in the Law, that on the sabbaths the priests in the temple do profane the sabbath, and are blameless?

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

    7and if ye had known what is: Kindness I will, and not sacrifice -- ye had not condemned the blameless,

  • Eccl 5:1
    67%

    1Keep thy feet when thou goest unto a house of God, and draw near to hear rather than to give of fools the sacrifice, for they do not know they do evil.

  • Mark 7:11
    67%

    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,

  • Josh 22:23
    67%

    23`we are' building for ourselves an altar to turn back from after Jehovah, and if to cause to go up on it burnt-offering and present, and if to make on it peace-offerings -- Jehovah Himself doth require `it'.

  • Matt 5:23-24
    2 verses
    66%

    23`If, therefore, thou mayest bring thy gift to the altar, and there mayest remember that thy brother hath anything against thee,

    24leave there thy gift before the altar, and go -- first be reconciled to thy brother, and then having come bring thy gift.

  • 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?

  • 1 Cor 9:13
    66%

    13Have ye not known that those working about the things of the temple -- of the temple do eat, and those waiting at the altar -- with the altar are partakers?

  • Mal 2:13
    66%

    13And this a second time ye do, Covering with tears the altar of Jehovah, With weeping and groaning, Because there is no more turning unto the present, Or receiving of a pleasing thing from your hand.

  • Luke 21:5
    66%

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

  • Exod 20:25
    66%

    25`And if an altar of stones thou dost make to Me, thou dost not build them of hewn work; when thy tool thou hast waved over it, then thou dost pollute it;

  • 1 Cor 3:17
    66%

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

  • Lev 19:14
    66%

    14`Thou dost not revile the deaf; and before the blind thou dost not put a stumbling block; and thou hast been afraid of thy God; I `am' Jehovah.

  • Lev 22:20
    66%

    20nothing in which `is' blemish do ye bring near, for it is not for a pleasing thing for you.

  • Exod 40:10
    66%

    10and thou hast anointed the altar of the burnt-offering, and all its vessels, and sanctified the altar, and the altar hath been most holy;

  • Rom 2:22
    66%

    22thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

  • 1 Sam 2:29
    66%

    29Why do ye kick at My sacrifice, and at Mine offering which I commanded `in' My habitation, and dost honour thy sons above Me, to make yourselves fat from the first part of every offering of Israel, of My people?

  • 1 Cor 10:18-19
    2 verses
    65%

    18See Israel according to the flesh! are not those eating the sacrifices in the fellowship of the altar?

    19what then do I say? that an idol is anything? or that a sacrifice offered to an idol is anything? --

  • Acts 23:4
    65%

    4And those who stood by said, `The chief priest of God dost thou revile?'

  • Matt 7:6
    65%

    6`Ye may not give that which is `holy' to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before the swine, that they may not trample them among their feet, and having turned -- may rend you.

  • Lev 17:8
    65%

    8`And unto them thou sayest: Any man of the house of Israel, or of the sojourners, who sojourneth in your midst, who causeth burnt-offering or sacrifice to ascend,

  • Lev 22:22
    65%

    22blind, or broken, or maimed, or having a wen, or scurvy, or scabbed -- ye do not bring these near to Jehovah, and a fire-offering ye do not make of them on the altar to Jehovah.

  • Matt 15:14
    65%

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

  • Rom 2:19
    65%

    19and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

  • Heb 9:9
    65%

    9which `is' a simile in regard to the present time, in which both gifts and sacrifices are offered, which are not able, in regard to conscience, to make perfect him who is serving,

  • 2 Chr 6:22
    64%

    22`If a man doth sin against his neighbour, and he hath lifted up on him an oath to cause him to swear, and the oath hath come in before Thine altar in this house --

  • Exod 30:29
    64%

    29and thou hast sanctified them, and they have been most holy; all that is coming against them is holy;

  • Lev 21:8
    64%

    8and thou hast sanctified him, for the bread of thy God he is bringing near; he is holy to thee; for holy `am' I, Jehovah, sanctifying you.

  • Lev 21:23
    64%

    23only, unto the vail he doth not enter, and unto the altar he doth not draw nigh; for blemish `is' in him; and he doth not pollute My sanctuaries; for I `am' Jehovah, sanctifying them.'

  • Deut 15:21
    64%

    21`And when there is in it a blemish, lame, or blind, any evil blemish, thou dost not sacrifice it to Jehovah thy God;