Matthew 23:32

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

Fill up, then, the measure of your ancestors.

Cross References

Genesis 15:16

And they shall come back here in the fourth generation, for the iniquity of the Amorites is not yet complete.”

Jeremiah 32:18

You show steadfast love to the thousandth generation but repay the guilt of parents into the laps of their children after them, O great and mighty God whose name is the Lord of hosts,

Jeremiah 7:26

yet they did not listen to me or pay attention, but they stiffened their necks. They did worse than their ancestors did.

Ezekiel 20:4

Will you judge them, mortal; will you judge them? Then let them know the abominations of their ancestors

Numbers 32:14

And now you, a brood of sinners, have risen in place of your fathers, to increase the Lord’s fierce anger against Israel!

Matthew 23:31

Thus you testify against yourselves that you are descendants of those who murdered the prophets.

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

1 Thessalonians 2:16

by hindering us from speaking to the gentiles so that they may be saved. Thus they have constantly been filling up the measure of their sins, but wrath has overtaken them at last.