Luke 11:43

Wo unto you, Pharisees, for ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and salutations in the places of public concourse.

Thomas Haweis 1795 New Testament

In The King James Version

Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

In Context

42But wo to you, Pharisees, because ye tithe mint, and rue, and every herb, and pass by judgment and the love of God. These ought ye to have done, and not to have omitted the other.

44Wo unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves concealed, which men, while walking over them, see not.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6and love the principal couch at suppers, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7Then he spake to those who were invited, a parable, when he observed how they chose the principal seats; saying unto them,

Romans 12:10In brotherly affection be tenderly attached to each other; in honour preferring one another:

James 2:2For if there come into your congregation a man with a gold ring, and in splendid apparel, and there come in also a poor man in a sordid garb;

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 →

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