Luke 11:40
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You fools! Did not the One who made the outside make the inside as well?
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that which is without, &c.--that is, He to whom belongs the outer life, and right to demand its subjection to Himself--is the inner man less His?
Open source ↗In this chapter, I. Christ teaches his disciples to pray, and quickens and encourages them to be frequent, instant, and importunate in prayer (Luk 11:1-13). II. He fully answers the blasphemous imputation of the Pharisees, who charged him with casting out devils by virtue of a compact and confederacy with Beelzebub, the prince of the devils, and shows the absurdity and wickedness of it (Luk 11:14-26). III. He shows the honour of obedient disciples to be greater than that of his own mother (Luk 11:27, Luk 11:28). IV. He upbraids the men of that generation for their infidelity and obstinacy, notwithstanding all the means of conviction offered to them (Luk 11:29-36). V. He severely reproves the Pharisees and consciences of those that submitted to them, and their hating and persecuting those that witnessed against their wickedness (v. 37-54).
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But God said to him, ‘You fool! This very night your life will be required of you. Then who will own what you have accumulated?’
You fool! What you sow does not come to life unless it dies.
“How long, O simple ones, will you love your simple ways? How long will scoffers delight in their scorn and fools hate knowledge?
O simple ones, learn to be shrewd; O fools, gain understanding.
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
This is the burden of the word of the LORD concerning Israel. Thus declares the LORD, who stretches out the heavens and lays the foundation of the earth, who forms the spirit of man within him:
He shapes the hearts of each; He considers all their works.
Then God said, “Let Us make man in Our image, after Our likeness, to rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, and over all the earth itself and every creature that crawls upon it.”
“Hear this, O foolish and senseless people, who have eyes but do not see, who have ears but do not hear.