Luke 11:43

Alas for you, the Pharisees! because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places!

The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham

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 alas for you, the Pharisees! because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every garden herb, and pass by justice, and the love of God. But, these things, it was binding to do, and, those, not to pass by.

44Alas for you! because ye are as the secret tombs: even the men that are walking above them, know it not.

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6And dearly love the first couch in the chief meals, and the first seats in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7And he went on to speak, unto the invited, a parable,—observing how, the first couches, they were choosing; saying unto them—

Romans 12:10In your brotherly love, unto one another, being tenderly affectioned, in honour, unto one another, giving preference;

James 2:2For, if there enter into your synagogue a man wearing gold rings in gay clothing, and there enter a destitute man also, in soiled clothing,—

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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