Parallel Verses

Bible in Basic English

You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

New American Standard Bible

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

King James Version

Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Holman Bible

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat, yet gulp down a camel!

International Standard Version

You blind guides! You filter out a gnat, yet swallow a camel!

A Conservative Version

Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel.

American Standard Version

Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

Amplified

You [spiritually] blind guides, who strain out a gnat [consuming yourselves with miniscule matters] and swallow a camel [ignoring and violating God’s precepts]!

An Understandable Version

You blind leaders, who strain out a [tiny] gnat [i.e., from your drinking water] and [yet] swallow a [whole] camel.

Anderson New Testament

Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel.

Common New Testament

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Daniel Mace New Testament

ye blind guides, who strain your liquor for a gnat, and swallow a beetle.

Darby Translation

Blind guides, who strain out the gnat, but drink down the camel.

Godbey New Testament

Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow down the camel.

Goodspeed New Testament

You blind guides! straining out the gnat, and yet swallowing the camel!

John Wesley New Testament

Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Julia Smith Translation

Blind guides, straining a gnat, and swallowing down a camel.

King James 2000

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Lexham Expanded Bible

Blind guides who filter out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Modern King James verseion

Blind guides who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel!

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

Ye blind guides, which strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Moffatt New Testament

Blind guides that you are, filtering away the gnat and swallowing the camel!

Montgomery New Testament

"You blind guides! who strain out the gnat and swallow the camel!

NET Bible

Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!

New Heart English Bible

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Noyes New Testament

Blind guides! who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Sawyer New Testament

Blind guides! who strain out a gnat and swallow down a camel.

The Emphasized Bible

Blind guides! Straining out the gnat, but, the camel, swallowing.

Thomas Haweis New Testament

Ye blind guides! who strain out a gnat, but gulp down a camel.

Twentieth Century New Testament

You blind guides, to strain out a gnat and to swallow a camel!

Webster

Ye blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Weymouth New Testament

You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel!

Williams New Testament

You blind leaders, who are straining out the gnat but gulping down the camel!

World English Bible

You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Worrell New Testament

Blind guides! straining out the gnat, and swallowing the camel!

Worsley New Testament

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

Youngs Literal Translation

'Blind guides! who are straining out the gnat, and the camel are swallowing.

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
Ye blind
τυφλός 
Tuphlos 
Usage: 34

ὁδηγός 
Hodegos 
Usage: 2

διῦλίζω 
Diulizo 
strain at
Usage: 0

a gnat
κώνωψ 
Konops 
Usage: 0

and
δέ 
De 
but, and, now, then, also, yet, yea, so, moreover, nevertheless, for, even, , not tr
Usage: 2184

καταπίνω 
Katapino 
Usage: 6

Context Readings

Jesus Condemns Their Hypocrisy

23 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone. 24 You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel. 25 A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.



Cross References

Matthew 19:24

And again I say to you, It is simpler for a camel to go through a needle's eye, than for a man with much money to go into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 7:4

Or how will you say to your brother, Let me take out the grain of dust from your eye, when you yourself have a bit of wood in your eye?

Matthew 15:2-6

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Matthew 23:16

A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.

Matthew 27:6-8

And the chief priests took the silver and said, It is not right to put it in the Temple store for it is the price of blood.

Luke 6:7-10

And the scribes and Pharisees were watching him to see if he would make him well on the Sabbath, so that they might be able to say something against him.

John 18:28

So they took Jesus from the house of Caiaphas to the Praetorium. It was early. They themselves did not go into the Praetorium, so that they might not become unclean, but might take the Passover.

John 18:40

Then again they gave a loud cry, Not this man, but Barabbas. Now Barabbas was an outlaw.

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