Luke 11:43

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

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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 woe to you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them .

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Cross References

Matthew 23:6And love the uppermost rooms at feasts, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

Luke 14:7And he put forth a parable to those who were invited, when he marked how they chose out the chief rooms; saying to them,

Romans 12:10Be kindly affectioned one to another with brotherly love; in honor preferring one another;

James 2:2For if there come into your assembly a man with a gold ring, in goodly apparel, and there come in also a poor man in vile raiment;

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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