Matthew 23:32

Good News Translation

Go on, then, and finish up what your ancestors started!

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

It will be four generations before your descendants come back here, because I will not drive out the Amorites until they become so wicked that they must be punished.”

Jeremiah 32:18

You have shown constant love to thousands, but you also punish people for the sins of their parents. You are a great and powerful God; you are the Lord Almighty.

Jeremiah 7:26

Yet no one listened or paid any attention. Instead, you became more stubborn and rebellious than your ancestors.

Ezekiel 20:4

“Are you ready to pass sentence on them, mortal man? Then do so. Remind them of the disgusting things their ancestors did.

Numbers 32:14

And now you have taken your ancestors' place, a new generation of sinful people ready to bring down the fierce anger of the Lord on Israel again.

Matthew 23:31

So you actually admit that you are the descendants of those who murdered the prophets!

Matthew 23:33

You snakes and children of snakes! How do you expect to escape from being condemned to hell?

1 Thessalonians 2:16

They even tried to stop us from preaching to the Gentiles the message that would bring them salvation. In this way they have brought to completion all the sins they have always committed. And now God's anger has at last come down on them!