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Matthew 23:31
Matthew 23:31 is verse 31 of Matthew chapter 23, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
King James Version
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
World English Bible
Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
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Matthew 23:29–33 · Berean Standard Bible
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
31 So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
32 Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
33 You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Joshua 24:22Then Joshua told them, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen to serve the LORD.” “We are witnesses!” they said.
Job 15:5For your iniquity instructs your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
Job 15:6Your own mouth, not mine, condemns you; your own lips testify against you.
Psalms 64:8They will be made to stumble, their own tongues turned against them. All who see will shake their heads.
Luke 19:22His master replied, ‘You wicked servant, I will judge you by your own words. So you knew that I am a harsh man, withdrawing what I did not deposit and reaping what I did not sow?
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
Acts 7:52Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers—
1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.