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Woes to Pharisees and Experts in the Law

Luke 11:47

In 9 translations

BSB
Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
KJV
Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
WEB
Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
ASV
Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
LSV
Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
YLT
'Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
DBY
Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.
DRC
Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.
GNV
Wo be to you: for ye builde the sepulchres of the Prophetes, and your fathers killed them.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε τὰ μνημεῖα τῶν προφητῶν οἱ δὲ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς.
RP2018
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε τὰ μνημεῖα τῶν προφητῶν, οἱ δὲ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς.
TR-Boyd
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν, ὅτι οἰκοδομεῖτε τὰ μνημεῖα τῶν προφητῶν, οἱ δὲ πατέρες ὑμῶν ἀπέκτειναν αὐτούς.
SCR1894
ουαι υμιν οτι οικοδομειτε τα μνημεια των προφητων οι δε πατερες υμων απεκτειναν αυτους

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Cross-references most cited first

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
  • Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
  • Matthew 23:29–33Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous. And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners…

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