Luke 6:39 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³⁹ And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³⁹ And he spake a parable unto them, Can the blind lead the blind? shall they not both fall into the ditch?

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³⁹ He further told them a proverb: Can a blind [man] guide and direct a blind [man]? Will they not both stumble into a ditch or a hole in the ground?

American Standard Version (1901)

³⁹ And he spake also a parable unto them, Can the blind guide the blind? shall they not both fall into a pit?

Common English Bible

³⁹ Jesus also told them a riddle. “A blind person can’t lead another blind person, right? Won’t they both fall into a ditch?

Catholic Public Domain Version

³⁹ Now he told them another comparison: "How can the blind lead the blind? Would they not both fall into a pit?

Luke 6:39 Cross References

Matthew 15:14

Let them alone: they are blind guides. And if the blind guide the blind, both shall fall into a pit.

2 Timothy 3:13

But evil men and impostors shall wax worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Isaiah 56:10

His watchmen are blind, they are all without knowledge; they are all dumb dogs, they cannot bark; dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.

Isaiah 9:16

For they that lead this people cause them to err; and they that are led of them are destroyed.

Matthew 23:33

Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgement of hell?

Jeremiah 8:12

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Jeremiah 6:15

Were they ashamed when they had committed abomination? nay, they were not at all ashamed, neither could they blush: therefore they shall fall among them that fall: at the time that I visit them they shall be cast down, saith the LORD.

Romans 2:19

and art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

Matthew 13:3

And he spake to them many things in parables, saying, Behold, the sower went forth to sow;