King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 23:29
“‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,›”
Verse in context — Matthew 23
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead› [men's] ‹bones, and of all uncleanness.›
‹Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.›
‹Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,›
‹And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.›
‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.›
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