Luke 11:44 “Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over with…”

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

World English Bible

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”

American Standard Version

Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.

Geneva Bible 1599

Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are as graues which appeare not, and the men that walke ouer them, perceiue not.

Darby Translation

Woe unto you, for ye are as the sepulchres which appear not, and the men walking over them do not know [it].

Young's Literal Translation

'Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

Bible in Basic English

A curse is on you! for you are like the resting-places of dead men, which are not seen, and men go walking over them without knowledge of it.

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Cross references

“for”

Acts 23:3 Psalm 5:9 Numbers 19:16 Hosea 9:8 Matthew 23:27 Matthew 23:28

Acts 23:3 · BSB

Then Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! You sit here to judge me according to the law, yet you yourself violate the law by commanding that I be struck.”

Psalm 5:9 · BSB

For not a word they speak can be trusted; destruction lies within them. Their throats are open graves; their tongues practice deceit.

Numbers 19:16 · BSB

Anyone in the open field who touches someone who has been killed by the sword or has died of natural causes, or anyone who touches a human bone or a grave, will be unclean for seven days.

Hosea 9:8 · BSB

The prophet is Ephraim’s watchman, along with my God, yet the snare of the fowler lies on all his paths. Hostility is in the house of his God!

Matthew 23:27 · BSB

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity.

Matthew 23:28 · BSB

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

43Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the chief seats in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces.

45One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”

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