Luke 11:48

New American Standard Bible 2020

So you are witnesses and you approve of the deeds of your fathers; because it was they who killed them, and you build their tombs.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 36:16

but they continually mocked the messengers of God, despised His words, and scoffed at His prophets, until the wrath of the Lord rose against His people, until there was no remedy.

Job 15:6

“Your own mouth condemns you, and not I; And your own lips testify against you.

Psalm 64:8

So they will make him stumble; Their own tongue is against them; All who see them will shake their heads.

Ezekiel 18:19

“Yet you say, ‘Why should the son not suffer the punishment for the father’s guilt?’ When the son has practiced justice and righteousness and has kept all My statutes and done them, he shall certainly live.

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:31

So you testify against yourselves, that you are sons of those who murdered the prophets.

Luke 11:47

Woe to you! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and it was your fathers who killed them.

Luke 11:49

For this reason also, the wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and apostles, and some of them they will kill, and some they will persecute,

Romans 1:32

and although they know the ordinance of God, that those who practice such things are worthy of death, they not only do the same, but also approve of those who practice them.

James 5:10

As an example, brothers and sisters, of suffering and patience, take the prophets who spoke in the name of the Lord.

Joshua 24:22

So Joshua said to the people, “You are witnesses against yourselves that you have chosen for yourselves the Lord, to serve Him.” And they said, “We are witnesses.”