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Luke 11:47

Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Luke 11:47 · King James Version

In other versions

  • Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    ASV

  • A curse is on you! for you make resting-places for the bodies of the prophets, but your fathers put them to death.

    BBE

  • Woe unto you, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, but your fathers killed them.

    DBY

  • Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    WEB

  • `Wo to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    YLT

  • Woe unto you! for all of you build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    ENG

  • Woe to you! for ye build the sepulchers of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    WBT

  • Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.

    BSB

In context

45Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

46And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

48Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

49Therefore also said the wisdom of God, I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they shall slay and persecute:

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