Matthew 23:27,33
Matthew 23:27-28 The Message (MSG)
“You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You’re like manicured grave plots, grass clipped and the flowers bright, but six feet down it’s all rotting bones and worm-eaten flesh. People look at you and think you’re saints, but beneath the skin you’re total frauds.
Matthew 23:33-34 The Message (MSG)
“Snakes! Cold-blooded sneaks! Do you think you can worm your way out of this? Never have to pay the piper? It’s on account of people like you that I send prophets and wise guides and scholars generation after generation—and generation after generation you treat them like dirt, greeting them with lynch mobs, hounding them with abuse.
Matthew 23:27 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Matthew 23:33 King James Version (KJV)
Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew 23:27 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:33 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Matthew 23:27 New Century Version (NCV)
“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You are like tombs that are painted white. Outside, those tombs look fine, but inside, they are full of the bones of dead people and all kinds of unclean things.
Matthew 23:33 New Century Version (NCV)
“You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?
Matthew 23:27 American Standard Version (ASV)
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:33 American Standard Version (ASV)
Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:27 New International Version (NIV)
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
Matthew 23:33 New International Version (NIV)
“You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Matthew 23:27 New King James Version (NKJV)
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.
Matthew 23:33 New King James Version (NKJV)
Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
Matthew 23:27 Amplified Bible (AMP)
“Woe to you, [self-righteous] scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which look beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.
Matthew 23:33 Amplified Bible (AMP)
You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
Matthew 23:27 New Living Translation (NLT)
“What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs—beautiful on the outside but filled on the inside with dead people’s bones and all sorts of impurity.
Matthew 23:33 New Living Translation (NLT)
Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:27 The Passion Translation (TPT)
“Great sorrow awaits you religious scholars and Pharisees—frauds and imposters! You are nothing more than tombs painted over with white paint—tombs that look shining and beautiful on the outside but filled with rotting corpses on the inside.
Matthew 23:33 The Passion Translation (TPT)
You are nothing but snakes in the grass, the offspring of poisonous vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell if you refuse to turn in repentance?