Luke 11:40

Jesus reminds them that God made both the inside and the outside. The Creator cares about the heart, not just appearances.

Cross-references · 17

• Luke 12:20“But God said to him, ‘You foolish one, tonight your soul is required of you. The things which you have prepared — whose will they be?’
• 1 Cor 15:36You foolish one, that which you yourself sow is not made alive unless it dies.
• Prov 1:22“How long, you simple ones, will you love simplicity? How long will mockers delight themselves in mockery, and fools hate knowledge?
• Prov 8:5You simple, understand prudence. You fools, be of an understanding heart.
• Ps 94:8–9Consider, you senseless among the people; you fools, when will you be wise?
• Matt 23:26You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
• Matt 23:17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
• Gen 2:7Yahweh God formed man from the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.
• Luke 24:25He said to them, “Foolish men, and slow of heart to believe in all that the prophets have spoken!
• Ps 75:4–5I said to the arrogant, “Don’t boast!” I said to the wicked, “Don’t lift up the horn.
• Ps 33:15he who fashions all of their hearts; and he considers all of their works.
• Jer 5:21‘Hear now this, foolish people, and without understanding; who have eyes, and don’t see; who have ears, and don’t hear:
• Heb 12:9Furthermore, we had the fathers of our flesh to chasten us, and we paid them respect. Shall we not much rather be in subjection to the Father of spirits, and live?
• Num 16:22They fell on their faces, and said, “God, the God of the spirits of all flesh, shall one man sin, and will you be angry with all the congregation?”
• Ps 14:1For the Chief Musician. By David. The fool has said in his heart, “There is no God.” They are corrupt. They have done abominable deeds. There is no one who does good.
• Gen 1:26God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the sky, and over the livestock, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”
• Zech 12:1A revelation, Yahweh’s word concerning Israel. Yahweh, who stretches out the heavens, and lays the foundation of the earth, and forms the spirit of man within him says:

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