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Matthew 23:31

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Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.

Wherefore {G5620} ye be witnesses {G3140} unto yourselves {G1438}, that {G3754} ye are {G2075} the children {G5207} of them which killed {G5407} the prophets {G4396}.

In this you testify against yourselves that you are worthy descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Wherefore ye witness to yourselves, that ye are sons of them that slew the prophets.

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Cross-References

  • Acts 7:51 (5 votes)

    ¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers [did], so [do] ye.

  • Acts 7:52 (5 votes)

    Which of the prophets have not your fathers persecuted? and they have slain them which shewed before of the coming of the Just One; of whom ye have been now the betrayers and murderers:

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:15 (3 votes)

    Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:

  • 1 Thessalonians 2:16 (3 votes)

    Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.

  • Joshua 24:22 (2 votes)

    And Joshua said unto the people, Ye [are] witnesses against yourselves that ye have chosen you the LORD, to serve him. And they said, [We are] witnesses.

  • Job 15:5 (2 votes)

    For thy mouth uttereth thine iniquity, and thou choosest the tongue of the crafty.

  • Job 15:6 (2 votes)

    Thine own mouth condemneth thee, and not I: yea, thine own lips testify against thee.