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Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

Woe {G3759} unto you {G5213}, lawyers {G3544}! for {G3754} ye have taken away {G142} the key {G2807} of knowledge {G1108}: ye entered {G1525} not {G3756} in {G1525} yourselves {G846}, and {G2532} them that were entering in {G1525} ye hindered {G2967}.

“Woe to you Torah experts! For you have taken away the key of knowledge! Not only did you yourselves not go in, you also have stopped those who were trying to enter!”

Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”

Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.

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Cross-References

  • Matthew 23:13 (12 votes)

    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.

  • Malachi 2:7 (8 votes)

    For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth: for he [is] the messenger of the LORD of hosts.

  • Acts 4:17 (5 votes)

    But that it spread no further among the people, let us straitly threaten them, that they speak henceforth to no man in this name.

  • Acts 4:18 (5 votes)

    And they called them, and commanded them not to speak at all nor teach in the name of Jesus.

  • Luke 11:45 (5 votes)

    Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.

  • Luke 11:46 (5 votes)

    And he said, Woe unto you also, [ye] lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

  • John 9:24 (4 votes)

    Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.