Luke 11:46

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

Jesus answered, “It will be bad for you, you experts in the law! You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey. You try to force others to obey your rules. But you yourselves don’t even try to follow any of those rules.

Cross References

Luke 11:52

“It will be bad for you, you experts in 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

They are circumcised, but they don’t obey the law themselves. They want you to be circumcised so that they can boast about what they did to you.

Isaiah 10:1

Just look at those lawmakers who write evil laws and make life hard for the people.

Luke 11:45

One of the experts in the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, when you say these things about the Pharisees, you are criticizing our group too.”

Isaiah 58:6

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

Matthew 22:35

Then one of them, an expert in the Law of Moses, asked Jesus a question to test him.