Luke 11:44 - Plain English Version

⁴⁴ But God will make trouble for you mob. You are like ground that has dead bodies in it that people don’t know about. People walk on that ground, and they think it is good. You are like that ground. You get people to think you are good, and they don’t know that you are bad on the inside.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁴ Woe to you! For you are like graves which are not marked or seen, and men walk over them without being aware of it [and are ceremonially defiled].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁴ Woe unto you! for ye are as the tombs which appear not, and the men that walk over them know it not.

Common English Bible

⁴⁴ “How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk on them without recognizing it.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁴ Woe to you! For you are like graves that are not noticeable, so that men walk over them without realizing it."

Luke 11:44 Cross References

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to Ananias, “God will punish you for that. You reckon that you are a good man, but you are not a good man. You sit there to judge me using our law, but you don’t follow that law yourself. Nobody showed you that I did anything wrong, but you told these men to hit me.”