Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
Parallel translations
- KJV Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- BSB Woe to you! You build tombs for the prophets, but it was your fathers who killed them.
- NKJV Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- NASB Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.
- NLT What sorrow awaits you! For you build monuments for the prophets your own ancestors killed long ago.
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Cross-references · 3
- Acts 7:51“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- 1 Th 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
- Matt 23:29–33“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
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