Matthew 23:4

Matthew 23 - Greek/English/Strong’s Interlinear


King James Version

For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
New King James Version

For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.
New American Standard Bible

And they tie up heavy burdens and lay them on people’s shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to move them with so much as their finger.
New International Version

They tie up heavy, cumbersome loads and put them on other people’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.
The Amplified Bible

The scribes and Pharisees tie up heavy loads [that are hard to bear] and place them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger [to make them lighter].
Wuest’s Expanded Translation

Moreover, they are always binding together burdensome burdens and placing them upon the shoulders of men, but they themselves are not willing to remove them with their finger.
Phillips’ Modern English

They pile up back-breaking burdens and lay them on other men’s shoulders – yet they themselves will not raise a finger to move them.
Williams’ Language of the People

They tie up heavy burdens and fasten them on men’s shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to help bear them.
KJV with Strong’s Numbers

For 1063 they bind 1195 heavy 926 burdens 5413 and 2532 grievous to be borne, 1419 and 2532 lay 2007 them on 1909 men’s 444 shoulders; 5606 but 1161 they themselves will 2309 not 3756 move 2795 them 846 with one of their 848 fingers. 1147
Mt. 23:3 π Mt. 23:5
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  1. I Will Be Your Father - Darryl Samuels - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) God is by nature a Father and He wants a family but there are many deceptions that are designed to get us to forsake Him as our only true Father.

  2. Ritualism and Hypocrisy; Lords of Darkness - Neil Girrard The ruler of false religion’s first (but by no means the last) great victory in the church age (that is, after the outpouring of the Holy Spirit on the Day of Pentecost) was convincing men they needed to hold regular meetings and practice rituals in the name of Christ.

  3. 8. Surmounting Three Major Obstacles; The Unfinished Reformation - An Analysis - Neil Girrard Morrison again looks ahead to “a united church,” offering his ideas (compiled in the late 1940s) as to how to overcome what he saw as three major obstacles to “ecumenical unity.”

  4. Vessels of Honor and Glory - Neil Girrard - ( in Adobe/pdf format ) For various reasons, men reject even the notion that man is, at his “bottom line,” only a clay pot.
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