Bible Cross References
the leaders, etc
Isaiah 3:12
O My people, your exactors strip you, and extortioners rule over you; O My people, they that pronounce you blessed lead you astray, and pervert the path of your feet.
Matthew 15:14
Leave them alone. They are blind guides of the blind. And if the blind guides the blind, both will fall into a ditch."
Matthew 23:16-36
16
Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, is obligated.'
17
"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that sanctifies the gold?
18
And, 'Whoever swears by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, is obligated.'
19
"Fools and blind! For which is greater, the gift or the altar that sanctifies the gift?
20
Therefore he that swears by the altar, swears by it and by all the things on it.
21
He that swears by the temple, swears by it and by Him who dwelt in it.
22
And he that swears by heaven, swears by the throne of God and by Him who sits on it.
23
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and have neglected the more important [things] of the law: justice and mercy and faith. These things you should have done, and not have neglected the others.
24
Blind guides, you who strain out a gnat, but swallow a camel!
25
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and unrighteousness.
26
Blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside of them may be clean also.
27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.
28
Thus also you outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,
30
and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.'
31
"So that you testify against yourselves that you are sons of those who killed the prophets.
32
And you, fill up then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.
33
Serpents! Brood of vipers! How shall you escape from the condemnation of hell?
34
Therefore, behold, I send you prophets, wise [men], and scribes: some of them you will kill and you will crucify, and [some] of them you will flog in your synagogues and you will persecute from city to city,
35
so that on you may come all the righteous blood being shed on the earth, from the blood of righteous Abel to the blood of Zechariah, son of Berechiah, whom you murdered between the temple and the altar.
36
Assuredly I say to you, all these things shall come upon this generation.
led of them
Numbers 6:23-26
23
Speak to Aaron and to his sons, saying, Thus you shall bless the children of Israel, saying to them,
24
The Lord bless you and keep you;
25
the Lord make His face to shine upon you, and have mercy upon you;
26
the Lord lift up His countenance upon you, and give you peace.
1 Kings 8:55
And he stood, and blessed all the congregation of Israel with a loud voice, saying,
1 Kings 8:56
Blessed [be] the Lord this day, who has given rest to His people Israel, according to all that He said: there has not failed one word among all His good words which He spoke by the hand of His servant Moses.
2 Chronicles 30:27
Then the priests the Levites rose up and blessed the people, and their voice was heard, and their prayer came [up] to His holy dwelling place, [even] into heaven.
Hebrews 7:7
Now without any contradiction the lesser is blessed by the better.