Matthew 23:32 · KJV
“Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.”
— Matthew 23:32
Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
Matthew 23 — Context
And say, If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.
31Wherefore ye be witnesses unto yourselves, that ye are the children of them which killed the prophets.
32Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
33{Ye} serpents, {ye} generation of vipers, how can ye escape the damnation of hell?
34Wherefore, behold, I send unto you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: and {some} of them ye shall kill and crucify; and {some} of them shall ye scourge in your synagogues, and persecute {them} from city to city:
Cross References
Genesis 15:16
But in the fourth generation they shall come hither again: for the iniquity of the Amorites {is} not yet full.
Numbers 32:14
And, behold, ye are risen up in your fathers' stead, an increase of sinful men, to augment yet the fierce anger of the LORD toward Israel.
1 Thessalonians 2:16
Forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they might be saved, to fill up their sins alway: for the wrath is come upon them to the uttermost.
Zechariah 5:6-11
And I said, What {is} it? And he said, This {is} an ephah that goeth forth. He said moreover, This {is} their resemblance through all the earth.