Matthew 23:32-33
Matthew 23:32-33 New International Version (NIV)
Go ahead, then, and complete what your ancestors started! “You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
Matthew 23:32-33 New King James Version (NKJV)
Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers’ guilt. Serpents, brood of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?
Matthew 23:29-34 The Message (MSG)
“You’re hopeless, you religion scholars and Pharisees! Frauds! You build granite tombs for your prophets and marble monuments for your saints. And you say that if you had lived in the days of your ancestors, no blood would have been on your hands. You protest too much! You’re cut from the same cloth as those murderers, and daily add to the death count. “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 23:32-33 King James Version (KJV)
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew 23:32-33 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Fill up, then, the measure of the guilt of your fathers. You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of hell?
Matthew 23:32-33 New Century Version (NCV)
And you will complete the sin that your ancestors started. “You are snakes! A family of poisonous snakes! How are you going to escape God’s judgment?
Matthew 23:32-33 American Standard Version (ASV)
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers. Ye serpents, ye offspring of vipers, how shall ye escape the judgment of hell?
Matthew 23:32-33 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Fill up, then, the [allotted] measure of the guilt of your fathers’ sins. You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?
Matthew 23:32-33 New Living Translation (NLT)
Go ahead and finish what your ancestors started. Snakes! Sons of vipers! How will you escape the judgment of hell?