Matthew 23:24

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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

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  • Matt 19:24 : 24 and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 `Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they may eat bread.' 3 And he answering said to them, `Wherefore also do ye transgress the command of God because of your tradition? 4 for God did command, saying, Honour thy father and mother; and, He who is speaking evil of father or mother -- let him die the death; 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.
  • Matt 27:6-8 : 6 And the chief priests having taken the silverlings, said, `It is not lawful to put them to the treasury, seeing it is the price of blood;' 7 and having taken counsel, they bought with them the field of the potter, for the burial of strangers; 8 therefore was that field called, `Field of blood,' unto this day.
  • Luke 6:7-9 : 7 and the scribes and the Pharisees were watching him, if on the sabbath he will heal, that they might find an accusation against him. 8 And he himself had known their reasonings, and said to the man having the withered hand, `Rise, and stand in the midst;' and he having risen, stood. 9 Then said Jesus unto them, `I will question you something: Is it lawful on the sabbaths to do good, or to do evil? life to save or to kill?' 10 And having looked round on them all, he said to the man, `Stretch forth thy hand;' and he did so, and his hand was restored whole as the other;
  • John 18:28 : 28 They led, therefore, Jesus from Caiaphas to the praetorium, and it was early, and they themselves did not enter into the praetorium, that they might not be defiled, but that they might eat the passover;
  • John 18:40 : 40 therefore they all cried out again, saying, `Not this one -- but Barabbas;' and Barabbas was a robber.
  • Matt 7:4 : 4 or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam `is' in thine own eye?
  • Matt 23:16 : 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!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Matt 23:23
    81%

    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.

  • Matt 23:25-29
    5 verses
    81%

    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 23:13-17
    5 verses
    77%

    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.

    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?

  • Matt 23:2-5
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    75%

    2saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

    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.

    5`And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

  • Luke 11:41-44
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    41But what ye have give ye `as' alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

    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 15:14
    73%

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

  • Luke 11:39
    71%

    39And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

  • Luke 6:39
    70%

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

  • Luke 11:46
    70%

    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.

  • Matt 19:24
    70%

    24and again I say to you, it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to go, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

  • Matt 7:3-6
    4 verses
    70%

    3`And why dost thou behold the mote that `is' in thy brother's eye, and the beam that `is' in thine own eye dost not consider?

    4or, how wilt thou say to thy brother, Suffer I may cast out the mote from thine eye, and lo, the beam `is' in thine own eye?

    5Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

    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.

  • Matt 23:32-34
    3 verses
    69%

    32and ye -- ye fill up the measure of your fathers.

    33`Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

    34`Because of this, lo, I send to you prophets, and wise men, and scribes, and of them ye will kill and crucify, and of them ye will scourge in your synagogues, and will pursue from city to city;

  • Luke 20:46-47
    2 verses
    69%

    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.'

  • Mark 12:39-40
    2 verses
    69%

    39and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in suppers,

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

  • Mark 10:25
    69%

    25It is easier for a camel through the eye of the needle to enter, than for a rich man to enter into the reign of God.'

  • Matt 15:7
    69%

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

  • Luke 6:41-42
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    41`And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye, and the beam that `is' in thine own eye dost not consider?

    42or how art thou able to say to thy brother, Brother, suffer, I may take out the mote that `is' in thine eye -- thyself the beam in thine own eye not beholding? Hypocrite, take first the beam out of thine own eye, and then thou shalt see clearly to take out the mote that `is' in thy brother's eye.

  • Luke 11:52
    68%

    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.'

  • Luke 18:25
    68%

    25for it is easier for a camel through the eye of a needle to enter, than for a rich man into the reign of God to enter.'

  • Matt 23:19
    68%

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

  • Luke 16:15
    68%

    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;

  • Lev 11:4
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    4`Only, this ye do not eat -- of those bringing up the cud, and of those dividing the hoof -- the camel, though it is bringing up the cud, yet the hoof not dividing -- it `is' unclean to you;

  • Mark 7:13
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    13setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'

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    1At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

  • Mark 7:8
    67%

    8for, having put away the command of God, ye hold the tradition of men, baptisms of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do.'

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    3The fat ye do eat, and the wool ye put on, The fed one ye slaughter, the flock ye feed not.

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    67%

    56hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time -- how do ye not make proof of `it'?

  • Matt 15:17
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    17do ye not understand that all that is going into the mouth doth pass into the belly, and into the drain is cast forth?