Lexham English Bible

Luke 11:42-49 Lexham English Bible (LEB)

42. “But woe to you, Pharisees, because you pay a tenth of mint and rue and every garden herb, and neglect justice and love for God! But it was necessary to do these things without neglecting those things also.

43. Woe to you, Pharisees, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and the greetings in the marketplaces!

44. Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, and the people who walk over them do not know it!

45. And one of the legal experts answered and said to him, “Teacher, when you say these things, you insult us also!”

46. So he said, “Woe to you also, legal experts, because you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers!

47. Woe to you, because you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them!

48. As a result you are witnesses, and you approve of the deeds of your fathers, because they killed them and you build their tombs!

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