Parallel Verses

Weymouth New Testament

You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp 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.

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.

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 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you pay the tithe on mint, dill, and cumin, while you have neglected the weightier requirements of the Law--just judgement, mercy, and faithful dealing. These things you ought to have done, and yet you ought not to have left the others undone. 24 You blind guides, straining out the gnat while you gulp down the camel! 25 "Alas for you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for you wash clean the outside of the cup or dish, while within they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Cross References

Matthew 19:24

Yes, I tell you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God."

Matthew 7:4

Or how say to your brother, 'Allow me to take the splinter out of your eye,' while the beam is in your own eye?

Matthew 15:2-6

"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the Elders by not washing their hands before meals?"

Matthew 23:16

"Alas for you, you blind guides, who say, "'Whoever swears by the Sanctuary it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the Sanctuary, is bound by the oath.'

Matthew 27:6-8

When the High Priests had gathered up the money they said, "It is illegal to put it into the Treasury, because it is the price of blood."

Luke 6:7-10

The Scribes and the Pharisees were on the watch to see whether He would cure him on the Sabbath that they might be able to bring an accusation against Him.

John 18:28

So they brought Jesus from Caiaphas's house to the Praetorium. It was the early morning, and they would not enter the Praetorium themselves for fear of defilement, and in order that they might be able to eat the Passover.

John 18:40

With a roar of voices they again cried out, saying, "Not this man, but Barabbas!" Now Barabbas was a robber.

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