Luke 11:47

Geneva Bible (1560)

Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.

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  • Matt 23:29-33 : 29 Wo be vnto you, Scribes & Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous, 30 And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets. 31 So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets. 32 Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers. 33 O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!
  • 1 Thess 2:15 : 15 Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.

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  • 89%

    48Truely ye beare witnesse, and allowe the deedes of your fathers: for they killed them, and yee build their sepulchres.

    49Therefore said the wisedome of God, I wil sende them Prophets and Apostles, and of them they shall slaie, and persecute away,

    50That the blood of all the Prophets, shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

    51From the blood of Abel vnto the blood of Zacharias, which was slaine betweene the altar and the Temple: verely I say vnto you, it shall be required of this generation.

    52Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.

    53And as he sayde these things vnto them, the Scribes and Pharises began to vrge him sore, and to prouoke him to speake of many things,

  • Matt 23:27-38
    12 verses
    84%

    27Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.

    28So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

    29Wo be vnto you, Scribes & Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

    30And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.

    31So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

    32Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.

    33O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!

    34Wherefore beholde, I send vnto you Prophets, and wise men, and Scribes, and of them ye shall kill and crucifie: and of them shall ye scourge in your Synagogues, and persecute from citie to citie,

    35That vpon you may come all the righteous blood that was shed vpon the earth, from the blood of Abel the righteous, vnto the blood of Zacharias the sonne of Barachias, whome ye slewe betweene the Temple and the altar.

    36Verely I say vnto you, all these things shall come vpon this generation.

    37Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them which are sent to thee, how often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her chickins vnder her wings, and ye would not!

    38Beholde, your habitation shalbe left vnto you desolate,

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    42But wo be to you, Pharises: for ye tithe the mynt and the rewe, and all maner herbs, and passe ouer iudgement & the loue of God: these ought yee to haue done, and not to haue left the other vndone.

    43Wo be to you, Pharises: for ye loue the vppermost seats in the Synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

    44Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.

    45Then answered one of the Lawyers, and saide vnto him, Master, thus saying thou puttest vs to rebuke also.

    46And he sayde, Wo be to you also, yee Lawyers: for yee lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and yee your selues touche not the burdens with one of your fingers.

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    78%

    51Ye stiffenecked and of vncircumcised heartes and eares, ye haue alwayes resisted the holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do you.

    52Which of the Prophets haue not your fathers persecuted? & they haue slaine them, which shewed before of the comming of that Iust, of whome ye are now the betrayers and murtherers,

  • Luke 6:25-26
    2 verses
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    25Wo be to you that are full: for ye shall hunger. Wo be to you that now laugh: for ye shal wayle and weepe.

    26Wo be to you when all men speake well of you: for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

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    13Wo therefore be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites, because ye shut vp the kingdome of heauen before men: for ye your selues go not in, neither suffer ye them that would enter, to come in.

    14Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye deuoure widowes houses, euen vnder a colour of long prayers: wherefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.

    15Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye compasse sea and land to make one of your profession: and when he is made, ye make him two folde more the childe of hell, then you your selues.

    16Wo be vnto you blinde guides, which say, Whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, it is nothing: but whosoeuer sweareth by the golde of the Temple, he offendeth.

  • 7O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

  • 5your fathers, where are they? and doe the Prophets liue for euer?

  • 23Reioyce ye in that day, and be glad: for beholde, your reward is great in heauen: for after this maner their fathers did to the Prophets.

  • 15Who both killed the Lord Iesus & their owne Prophets, & haue persecuted vs away, and God they please not, and are contrary to all men,

  • 40Beware therefore lest that come vpon you, which is spoken of in the Prophets,

  • 25Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.

  • 12Wo vnto him that buildeth a towne with blood, and erecteth a citie by iniquitie.

  • 12Reioyce and be glad, for great is your reward in heauen: for so persecuted they the Prophets which were before you.

  • 11Forasmuch then as your treading is vpon the poore, and yee take from him burdens of wheate, ye haue built houses of hewen stone, but ye shal not dwel in them: ye haue plated pleasant vineyards, but ye shal not drinke wine of them.

  • 29And they that went by, railed on him, wagging their heads, and saying, Hey, thou that destroyest the Temple, & buildest it in three dayes,

  • 13For the sinnes of her Prophets, and the iniquities of her Priests, that haue shed the blood of the iust in the middes of her.

  • 6Many haue ye murthered in this citie, and ye haue filled the streets thereof with the slaine.

  • 4For they binde heauie burdens, & grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.

  • 47Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.

  • 34O Hierusalem, Hierusalem, which killest the Prophets, and stonest them that are sent to thee, howe often would I haue gathered thy children together, as the henne gathereth her brood vnder her wings, and ye would not!

  • 1Wo be vnto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheepe of my pasture, saith the Lorde.

  • 13Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.

  • 26Yet they were disobedient, and rebelled against thee, and cast thy Lawe behinde their backes, and slewe thy Prophets (which protested among them to turne them vnto thee) and committed great blasphemies.