KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Luke 11:46–47
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Luke 11:46
46And 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.
46*And he said, Woe vnto you also ye lawyers: for ye lade men with burdens grieuous to be borne, and ye your selues touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.
- Mat. 23.4.
Luke 11:47
47Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.
47*Woe vnto you: for ye build the sepulchres of the Prophets, and your fathers killed them.
- Matth. 23.29.
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DEFINED WORDS
Luke 11:46
Spoke, declared, reported, commanded, or expressed in words.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Persons learned in the law; in the Gospels, experts in the law of Moses.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To load or burden.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Loads carried; also duties, hardships, or oppressive weights borne by a person.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Burdensome, painful, severe.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
DEFINED WORDS
Luke 11:47
To construct, rest or depend on as a foundation.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Especially, an inspired teacher; He that prophesies.
Meaning drawn from: Cawdrey 1604 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893
Deprived of life; quelled; calmed.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 46
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Open the full verse study2Saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses’ seat:
3All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.
4For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
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Open the full verse study1WOE unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and that write grievousness which they have prescribed;
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Open the full verse study52Woe 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.
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Open the full verse study13For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.
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Open the full verse study45¶ Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
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Open the full verse study6Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bands of wickedness, to undo the heavy burdens, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?
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Open the full verse study15Who both killed the Lord Jesus, and their own prophets, and have persecuted us; and they please not God, and are contrary to all men:
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Open the full verse study51¶ Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Ghost: as your fathers did, so do ye.
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Open the full verse study29Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
30And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
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