Parallel Verses

Godbey New Testament

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

Bible in Basic English

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

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 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you tithe mint and anise and cummin, and pass by the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: it behooves to do these and not to neglect those. 24  Ye blind guides, who strain out the gnat, and swallow down the camel. 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you purify the exterior of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of extortion and impurity.

Cross References

Matthew 19:24

And again I say to you, It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle, than for a rich man to go into the kingdom of God.

Matthew 7:4

Or how will you say to your brother, Permit me, I will cast out the mote from your eye; and behold, there is a beam in your own eye?

Matthew 15:2-6

Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the traditions of the elders? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

Matthew 23:16

Woe unto you, blind guides, who are saying, Whosoever may swear by the temple it is nothing; but whosoever may swear by the gold of the temple, he is debtor.

Matthew 27:6-8

And the chief priests, taking the pieces of silver, said, It is not lawful to put them in the treasury, because it is the price of blood.

Luke 6:7-10

And the scribes and Pharisees were watching Him, if He will heal him on the Sabbath, in order that they may find accusation against Him.

John 18:28

Then they lead Jesus from Caiaphas to the judgment hall: and it was morning. And they did not come into the judgment hall, in order that they might not be polluted, but that they might eat the passover.

John 18:40

Then they all again cried out, saying, Not Him, but Barabbas. And Barabbas was a robber.

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