Matthew 23:19 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹⁹ You blind people! Which is more important, the gift or the Altar that makes the gift sacred?

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁹ Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁹ You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar which makes the gift sacred?

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁹ Ye blind: for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Common English Bible

¹⁹ You blind people! Which is greater, the gift or the altar that makes the gift holy?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁹ How blind you are! For which is greater: the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁹ Ye blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifieth the gift?

Matthew 23:19 Cross References

Matthew 23:17

You foolish, blind people! Which is greater, the gold or the Temple that makes its gold sacred?

Matthew 23:18

And [you say], whoever takes an oath ‘by the Altar,’ it does not [really] mean anything, but whoever takes an oath ‘by the gift on the Altar,’ he is obligated to [fulfill] the oath.

Matthew 23:20

The person, therefore, who takes an oath ‘by the Altar,’ [not only] swears by it, but [also] by everything on it.