Devine Scripture

Matthew 23:31

Matthew chapter 23 · verse 31 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

Context

v.30and say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we should not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

v.31This passage

v.32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Psalms 64:8

    So they shall be made to stumble, their own tongue being against them: All that see them shall wag the head.

  • Job 15:5

    For thine iniquity teacheth thy mouth, And thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Acts 7:51

    Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • Luke 19:22

    He saith unto him, Out of thine own mouth will I judge thee, thou wicked servant. Thou knewest that I am an austere man, taking up that which I laid not down, and reaping that which I did not sow;

  • Joshua 24:22

    And Joshua said unto the people, Ye are witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you Jehovah, to serve him. And they said, We are witnesses.

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15

    who both killed the Lord Jesus and the prophets, and drove out us, and please not God, and are contrary to all men;