Matthew 23:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

Cross References

Isaiah 46:1

Bel is bent down, Nebo is falling; their images are on the beasts and on the cattle: the things which you took about have become a weight to the tired beast.

Matthew 23:23

You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

Matthew 23:3

All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

Luke 11:46

And he said, A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for while other men are crushed under the weight of the rules you make for them, you yourselves do not put so much as one finger to them.

Acts 15:10

Why then are you testing God, by putting on the neck of the disciples a yoke so hard that not even our fathers or we were strong enough for it?

Acts 15:28

For it seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us, to put on you nothing more than these necessary things;

Galatians 6:13

Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.

1 John 5:3

For loving God is keeping his laws: and his laws are not hard.

Revelation 2:24

But to you I say, to the rest in Thyatira, even to those who have not this teaching, and have no knowledge of the secrets of Satan, as they say; I put on you no other weight.