Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets.
Parallel translations
- KJV Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
- BSB So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- NKJV “Therefore you are witnesses against yourselves that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- NASB So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.
- NLT “But in saying that, you testify against yourselves that you are indeed the descendants of those who murdered the prophets.
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 6
- Acts 7:51–52“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
- 1 Th 2:15–16who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn’t please God, and are contrary to all men;
- Josh 24:22Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen Yahweh yourselves, to serve him.” They said, “We are witnesses.”
- Job 15:5–6For your iniquity teaches your mouth, and you choose the language of the crafty.
- Luke 19:22“He said to him, ‘Out of your own mouth will I judge you, you wicked servant! You knew that I am an exacting man, taking up that which I didn’t lay down, and reaping that which I didn’t sow.
- Ps 64:8Their own tongues shall ruin them. All who see them will shake their heads.
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