Matthew 23:32
fill up then the measure of your fathers, ye serpents, ye brood of vipers:
1770 John Worsley NT
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
31so that ye are witnesses yourselves, that ye are the children of those who killed the prophets:
33how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Cross References
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, thus going on to fill up their sins perpetually: but wrath is coming upon them to extremity.
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 →