King James Version (KJV)
Matthew 23:32
“‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.›”
Verse in context — Matthew 23
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‹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.›
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‹Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.›
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‹Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.›
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[Ye] ‹serpents,› [ye] ‹generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?›
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‹Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and› [some] ‹of them ye shall kill and crucify; and› [some] ‹of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute› [them] ‹from city to city:›
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