Luke 11:46

Easy To Read Version

Jesus answered, “It will be bad for you, you teachers of the law! You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey. {\cf2\super [212]} You try to force other people to obey those rules. But you yourselves don’t even try to follow any of those rules.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:1

Look at the lawmakers that write evil laws. Those lawmakers write laws that make life hard for people.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of special day I want—a day to make people free. I want a day that you take the burdens off people. I want a day when you make the troubled people free. I want a day when you take the burdens from their shoulders.

Matthew 22:35

One Pharisee was an expert in the law \{of Moses\}. That Pharisee asked Jesus a question to test him.

Luke 11:45

One of the teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, when you say these things about the Pharisees, {\cf2\super [211]} you are criticizing our group too.”

Luke 11:52

“It will be bad for you, you teachers of the law. You have taken away the key to learning about God. You yourselves would not learn, and you stopped others from learning, too.”

Galatians 6:13

Those men are circumcised, but they don’t obey the law {\cf2\super [79]} themselves. They want you to be circumcised. Then they can boast about what they forced you to do.