Parallel Verses
Weymouth New Testament
Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them.
New American Standard Bible
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.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
They tie up burdens that are heavy and unbearable and lay them on people's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to remove them.
A Conservative Version
For they bind heavy burdens and difficult to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they do not want to move them with their finger.
American Standard Version
Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
Yes, they require people to bear heavy and difficult responsibilities, and place them on people's shoulders [to carry out], but they themselves will not lift a finger to do them.
Anderson New Testament
For they bind up burdens that are heavy and hard to be borne, and lay them on the shoulders of men; but they refuse to move them with one of their fingers.
Bible in Basic English
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them
Common New Testament
They bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.
Daniel Mace New Testament
for they load men with intolerable impositions, and will not take the least pains to ease them of the burthen: they do nothing but out of ostentation,
Darby Translation
but bind burdens heavy and hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.
Godbey New Testament
But they bind heavy burdens, and place them on the shoulders of the people; and they themselves are not willing to touch them with their finger.
Goodspeed New Testament
They tie up heavy loads and have them put on men's shoulders, but they will not lift a finger to move them.
John Wesley New Testament
For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not move them with their finger.
Julia Smith Translation
For they bind loads heavy and difficult to carry, and put upon men's shoulders; and with their fingers will they not move them.
King James 2000
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.
Lexham Expanded Bible
And they tie up heavy burdens and put [them] on people's shoulders, but [they] themselves are not willing with their finger to move them
Modern King James verseion
For they bind heavy and hard-to-carry burdens and lay them on men's shoulders. But they will not move them with one of their fingers.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Yea, and they bind heavy burdens, and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders: but they themselves will not heave at them with one of their fingers.
Moffatt New Testament
They make up heavy loads and lay them on men's shoulders, but they will not stir a finger to remove them.
Montgomery New Testament
"For they bind heavy burdens and lay them on men's shoulders, but they themselves will not lift a finger to move them.
NET Bible
They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.
New Heart English Bible
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
Noyes New Testament
They bind heavy burdens, and lay them on mens shoulders, and will not themselves move them with a finger.
Sawyer New Testament
but bind heavy burdens and put them on the shoulders of men, but will not move them with their finger.
The Emphasized Bible
But they bind together heavy burdens, and lay upon men's shoulders, whereas, they, with their finger, are not willing to move them.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
For they bind burdens grievous, and difficultly borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they will not move them with a finger of their own.
Twentieth Century New Testament
While they make up heavy loads and pile them on other men's shoulder's they decline, themselves, to lift a finger to move them.
Webster
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.
Williams New Testament
They tie up heavy burdens and fasten them on men's shoulders, but they refuse to lift a finger to help bear them.
World English Bible
For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.
Worrell New Testament
And they bind heavy burdens, and lay them upon the shoulders of men; but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.
Worsley New Testament
for they bind grievous and intolerable burthens, and impose them upon men; but they themselves will not put a finger to them:
Youngs Literal Translation
for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.
Themes
Burden » Figurative » Of oppressions
Ecclesiasticism » Jewish, rebuked by jesus
Ecclesiasticism » Arrogance of
Pharisees » Hypocrisy of, reproved » By jesus
Pharisees » Character of » Oppressive
Satire » Of jesus against hypocrites
Topics
Interlinear
and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
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Word Count of 37 Translations in Matthew 23:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Seven Woes Pronounced On The Scribes And Pharisees
3 Therefore do and observe everything that they command you; but do not imitate their lives, for though they tell others what to do, they do not do it themselves. 4 Heavy and cumbrous burdens they bind together and load men's shoulders with them, while as for themselves, not with one finger do they choose to lift them. 5 And everything they do they do with a view to being observed by men; for they widen their phylacteries and make the tassels large,
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Luke 11:46
"Alas too for you expounders of the Law!" replied Jesus, "for you load men with cumbrous burdens which you yourselves will not touch with one of your fingers.
Acts 15:10
Now, therefore, why try an experiment upon God, by laying on the necks of these disciples a yoke which neither our forefathers nor we have been able to bear?
Matthew 11:28-30
"Come to me, all you toiling and burdened ones, and *I* will give you rest.
Acts 15:28
For it has seemed good to the Holy Spirit and to us to lay upon you no burden heavier than these necessary requirements--
Galatians 6:13
For these very men do not really keep the Law of Moses, but they would have you receive circumcision in order that they may glory in *your* bodies.
Matthew 23:23
"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.
Revelation 2:24
But to you, the rest of you in Thyateira, all who do not hold this teaching and are not the people who have learnt the "deep things," as they call them (the deep things of Satan!)