Luke 11:46

New Century Version

Jesus answered, “How terrible for you, you experts on the law! You make strict rules that are very hard for people to obey, but you yourselves don’t even try to follow those rules.

Cross References

Isaiah 10:1

How terrible it will be for those who make unfair laws, and those who write laws that make life hard for people.

Isaiah 58:6

“I will tell you the kind of fast I want: Free the people you have put in prison unfairly and undo their chains. Free those to whom you are unfair and stop their hard labor.

Matthew 22:35

One Pharisee, who was an expert on the law of Moses, asked Jesus this question to test him:

Luke 11:45

One of the experts on the law said to Jesus, “Teacher, when you say these things, you are insulting us, too.”

Luke 11:52

“How terrible for you, you experts on 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 who are circumcised do not obey the law themselves, but they want you to be circumcised so they can brag about what they forced you to do.