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Luke 11:43

World English Bible

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.

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Luke 11:43 in other translations

Woe unto you Pharisees! for ye love the chief seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the marketplaces.

Luke 11:43 · American Standard Version

Luke 11:43 in context

  1. 41But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.
  2. 42But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and God’s love. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
  3. 43Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seats in the synagogues, and the greetings in the marketplaces.
  4. 44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like hidden graves, and the men who walk over them don’t know it.”
  5. 45One of the lawyers answered him, “Teacher, in saying this you insult us also.”