Luke 11:39

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

The Lord said to him, “The washing you Pharisees do is like cleaning only the outside of a cup or a dish. But what is inside you? You want only to cheat and hurt people.

Cross References

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. You are sinners, so clean sin out of your lives. You are trying to follow God and the world at the same time. Make your thinking pure.

Titus 1:15

To people who are pure, everything is pure. But to those who are full of sin and don’t believe, nothing is pure. Really, their thinking has become evil and their consciences have been ruined.

Acts 5:3

Peter said, “Ananias, why did you let Satan fill your mind with such an idea? You kept part of the money for yourself and lied about it to the Holy Spirit!

Matthew 15:19

All these bad things begin in the mind: evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual sins, stealing, lying, and insulting people.

Matthew 7:15

“Be careful of false prophets. They come to you and look gentle like sheep. But they are really dangerous like wolves.

Proverbs 30:12

Some people think they are pure, but they have done nothing to remove the filth of their sin.

Genesis 6:5

The Lord saw that the people on the earth were very evil. He saw that they thought only about evil things all the time.

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion. I did better than most other Jews my own age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the traditions we got from our ancestors.

John 12:6

But Judas did not really care about the poor. He said this because he was a thief. He was the one who kept the moneybag for the group of followers. And he often stole money from the bag.

Luke 16:15

Jesus said to them, “You make yourselves look good in front of people. But God knows what is really in your hearts. What people think is important is worth nothing to God.

Luke 7:13

When the Lord saw the woman, he felt very sorry for her and said, “Don’t cry.”

Zephaniah 3:3

Jerusalem’s leaders are like roaring lions. Her judges are like hungry wolves that come in the evening to attack the sheep—and in the morning nothing is left.

Ezekiel 22:27

“The leaders in Jerusalem are like a wolf eating the animal it has caught. They attack people and kill them just to get rich.

Ezekiel 22:25

The prophets in Jerusalem are making evil plans. They are like a lion—it roars when it begins to eat the animal it caught. They have destroyed many lives. They have taken many valuable things and made widows of many of the women in Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, wash the evil from your hearts. Make your hearts pure so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Proverbs 26:25

What they say sounds good, but don’t trust them. They are full of evil ideas.

Psalm 22:13

Their mouths are opened wide, like a lion roaring and tearing at its prey.

2 Chronicles 25:2

Amaziah did what the Lord wanted him to do, but not with all his heart.

2 Timothy 3:5

They will go on pretending to be devoted to God, but they will refuse to let that “devotion” change the way they live. Stay away from these people!

John 13:2

Jesus and his followers were at the evening meal. The devil had already persuaded Judas Iscariot to hand Jesus over to his enemies. (Judas was the son of Simon.)

Proverbs 26:23

Good words that hide an evil heart are like silver paint over a cheap, clay pot.

Luke 7:19

He sent them to the Lord to ask, “Are you the one we heard was coming, or should we wait for someone else?”