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The Book of Luke, Chapter 11, Verse 43

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42
‹But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.›
King James Version
‹Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.›
American Standard Version
Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.
New English Translation
from the blood of Abel to the blood of Zechariah, who was killed between the altar and the sanctuary. Yes, I tell you, it will be charged against this generation.
World English Bible
Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
44
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over› [them] ‹are not aware› [of them].
45
Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
46
And 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.›
47
‹Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.›
48
‹Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.›
49
‹Therefore 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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‹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 unto the blood of Zacharias, which perished between the altar and the temple: verily I say unto you, It shall be required of this generation.›
52
‹Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.›
53
And as he said these things unto them, the scribes and the Pharisees began to urge [him] vehemently, and to provoke him to speak of many things: