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Matthew 23:32 — Meaning and Application
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King James Version
" Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. "
Matthew 23:32
Verse in Context
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And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and some of them ye shall kill and crucify; and some of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute them from city to city:
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Matthew 23:1
"Then spake Jesus to the multitude, and to his disciples,"
Matthew 23:2
"Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:"
Matthew 23:3
"All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not."
Matthew 23:4
"For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers."
Matthew 23:5
"But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,"
Matthew 23:6
"And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,"
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