Matthew 23:32
And (so) full-fill ye (then) the measure of your fathers. [And (so) fill ye (full) the measure of your fathers.]
Wycliffe Modern Spelling
In The King James Version
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
In Context
Cross References
Numbers 32:14And Moses said, Lo! ye the increasings, and nourished children, of sinful men, have risen (up) for your fathers, that ye should increase the strong vengeance of the Lord against Israel. (And Moses said, Behold! now ye, the increasings, and nourished children, of sinful men, have taken your fathers’ place, and ye would provoke the strong vengeance of the Lord against Israel once again.)
1 Thessalonians 2:16forbidding us to speak to heathen men, that they be made safe, that they [full-]fill their sins (for)evermore; for the wrath of God came on them into the end. (forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles, so that they can be saved, so that they fill their sins full forevermore; but God’s wrath hath come upon them in the end.)
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 →