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Luke 11:52 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.” "

Luke 11:52

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50 that the blood of all the prophets, which was shed from the foundation of the world, may be required of this generation,

51 from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zachariah, who perished between the altar and the sanctuary.’ Yes, I tell you, it will be required of this generation.

52 Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”

53 As he said these things to them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to be terribly angry, and to draw many things out of him,

54 lying in wait for him, and seeking to catch him in something he might say, that they might accuse him.

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"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will also reject you, that you may be no priest to me. Because you have forgotten your God’s law, I will also forget your children."

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Luke 11:1

"When he finished praying in a certain place, one of his disciples said to him, “Lord, teach us to pray, just as John also taught his disciples.”"

Luke 11:2

"He said to them, “When you pray, say, ‘Our Father in heaven, may your name be kept holy. May your Kingdom come. May your will be done on earth, as it is in heaven."

Luke 11:3

"Give us day by day our daily bread."

Luke 11:4

"Forgive us our sins, for we ourselves also forgive everyone who is indebted to us. Bring us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one.’”"

Luke 11:5

"He said to them, “Which of you, if you go to a friend at midnight and tell him, ‘Friend, lend me three loaves of bread,"

Luke 11:6

"for a friend of mine has come to me from a journey, and I have nothing to set before him,’"

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