Luke 11:39
And the Lord said to him: “You Pharisees today clean what is outside the cup and the plate, but what is inside of you is full of plunder and iniquity.
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40Fools! Did not he who made what is outside, indeed also make what is inside?
Cross References
2 Chronicles 25:2And he accomplished good in the sight of the Lord. Yet truly, not with a perfect heart.
Proverbs 30:12There is a generation which seems pure to themselves, and yet they are not even washed from their filthiness.
Ezekiel 22:25There is a conspiracy of prophets in her midst. Like a lion, roaring and seizing the prey, they have devoured souls. They have taken riches and a price. They have multiplied widows in her midst.
Zephaniah 3:3Her leaders are in her midst like roaring lions. Her judges are evening wolves; they leave nothing for the morning.
Matthew 12:33Either make the tree good and its fruit good, or make the tree evil and its fruit evil. For certainly a tree is known by its fruit.
Matthew Henry on Luke 11:38-54
Woes Denounced on That Generation; The Pharisees and Lawyers Reproved. 37 And as he spake, a certain Pharisee besought him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat. 38 And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner. 39 And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness. 40 Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also? 41… Read the whole commentary →