Luke 11:46 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

But He said, Woe to you, the lawyers, also! For you load men with oppressive burdens hard to bear, and you do not personally [even gently] touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

American Standard Version (1901)

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

Common English Bible

Jesus said, “How terrible for you legal experts too! You load people down with impossible burdens and you refuse to lift a single finger to help them.

Catholic Public Domain Version

So he said: "And woe to you experts in the law! For you weigh men down with burdens which they are not able to bear, but you yourselves do not touch the weight with even one of your fingers.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear, and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Luke 11:46 Cross References

Isaiah 10:1

Woe unto them that decree unrighteous decrees, and to the writers that write perverseness:

Isaiah 58:6

Is not this the fast that I have chosen? to loose the bonds of wickedness, to undo the bands of the yoke, and to let the oppressed go free, and that ye break every yoke?

Matthew 22:35

And one of them, a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him,

Luke 11:45

And one of the lawyers answering saith unto him, Master, in saying this thou reproachest us also.

Luke 11:52

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.

Galatians 6:13

For not even they who receive circumcision do themselves keep the law; but they desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.