Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.
Matthew 23:4 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised They tie up heavy loads that are hard to carry and put them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves aren’t willing to lift a finger to move them. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition They tie up heavy loads, hard to bear, and place them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to help bear them. American Standard Version (1901) Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger. Common English Bible For they tie together heavy packs that are impossible to carry. They put them on the shoulders of others, but are unwilling to lift a finger to move them. Catholic Public Domain Version For they bind up heavy and unbearable burdens, and they impose them on men's shoulders. But they are not willing to move them with even a finger of their own. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens, and lay them on men's shoulders; but with a finger of their own they will not move them. |
Bel crouches; Nebo cowers. Idols depicting them are consigned to beasts and cattle. The images you carry are loaded, as a burden for the weary animal.
‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You pay a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, and yet you have neglected the more important matters of the law #– #justice, mercy, and faithfulness. These things should have been done without neglecting the others.
Therefore do whatever they tell you, and observe it. But don’t do what they do, because they don’t practise what they teach.
Then he said, ‘Woe also to you experts in the law! You load people with burdens that are hard to carry, and yet you yourselves don’t touch these burdens with one of your fingers.
Now then, why are you testing God by putting a yoke on the disciples’ necks that neither our ancestors nor we have been able to bear?
For it was the Holy Spirit’s decision #– #and ours #– #not to place further burdens on you beyond these requirements:
For even the circumcised don’t keep the law themselves, and yet they want you to be circumcised in order to boast about your flesh.
For this is what love for God is: to keep his commands. And his commands are not a burden,
I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, who do not hold this teaching, who haven’t known ‘the so-called secrets , of Satan’ #– #as they say #– #I am not putting any other burden on you.