Matthew 23:32
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
New Heart English Bible
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
33You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of hell?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14"Behold, you have risen up in your fathers' place, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the Lord toward Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
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 →