Luke 11:46
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "How terrible also for you teachers of the Law! You put onto people's backs loads which are hard to carry, but you yourselves will not stretch out a finger to help them carry those loads.

New Revised Standard Version
And he said, “Woe also to you lawyers! For you load people with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not lift a finger to ease them.

Contemporary English Version
Jesus replied: You teachers are also in for trouble! You load people down with heavy burdens, but you won't lift a finger to help them carry the loads.

New American Bible
And he said, “Woe also to you scholars of the law! You impose on people burdens hard to carry, but you yourselves do not lift one finger to touch them.

Douay-Rheims Bible
But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers.

Woe.

Isaiah 10:1 Woe to them that make wicked laws: and when they write, write injustice:

Matthew 23:2-4 Saying: The scribes and the Pharisees have sitten on the chair of Moses. . . .

Galatians 6:13 For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law: but they will have you to be circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

ye yourselves.

Isaiah 58:6 Is not this rather the fast that I have chosen? loose the bands of wickedness, undo the bundles that oppress, let them that are broken go free, and break asunder every burden.

Context
Woes to Religious Leaders
45And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also. 46But he said: Woe to you lawyers also, because you load men with burdens which they cannot bear and you yourselves touch not the packs with one of your fingers. 47Woe to you who build the monuments of the prophets: and your fathers killed them.…
Cross References
Matthew 22:35
And one of them, a doctor of the law, asked him, tempting him:

Matthew 23:4
For they bind heavy and insupportable burdens and lay them on men's shoulders: but with a finger of their own they will not move them.

Luke 11:45
And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him: Master, in saying these things, thou reproachest us also.

Luke 11:52
Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves have not entered in: and those that were entering in, you have hindered.

Luke 11:45
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