Matthew 23:32
And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.
English Majority Text (NT)
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31“So that you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.
33Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us from speaking to the Gentiles so that they may be saved, so as always to fill up the measure of their sins; but the wrath of God has come upon them to the uttermost. 1 Paul's Longing to See Them Again
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 →