17You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?


In Context

14 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater damnation.

15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

16 Woe to you, you blind guides, which say, Whoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!

17 You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

18 And, Whoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gift that is on it, he is guilty.

19 You fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gift, or the altar that sanctifies the gift?

Matthew 23:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

23:17[Ye] fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

23:17You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes the gold sacred?

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

23:17Ye foolish and blind; for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

23:17Ye fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:17Fools and blind, for which is greater, the gold, or the temple which sanctifies the gold?

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

23:17Ye fools and blind: for whether is greater, the gold, or the temple that hath sanctified the gold?

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:17Ye fools, and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifieth the gold?

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

23:17You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

23:17Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?