Matthew 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Revised Version 1895
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.
33Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers’ stead, 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 alway: but the wrath is come upon 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 →