Luke 11:47 - New King James Version

⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁷ Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁷ Woe to you! For you are rebuilding and repairing the tombs of the prophets, whom your fathers killed (destroyed).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁷ Woe unto you! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ “How terrible for you! You built memorials to the prophets, whom your ancestors killed.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ Woe to you, who build the tombs of the prophets, while it is your fathers who killed them!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁷ Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11:47 Cross References

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

Luke 11:48

In fact, you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers; for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

Acts 7:51

“You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

1 Thessalonians 2:15

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