Matthew 23:32
and fill ye up the measure of your fathers!
The New Testament, American Bible Union (1865)
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31So that ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of those who killed the prophets;
33Serpents! Brood of vipers! How can ye escape the judgment of hell?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from speaking to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins always; and the wrath came upon them to the utmost.
Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34
The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →