Matthew 23:15
King James Version
10 Jun 2026
“Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.”
υἱός
Son, descendant, one sharing the nature of. Huios. You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus. Sonship through faith is the highest status available to a human being.
ὅταν
when
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ὅταν
Whenever, when, as soon as. Ask and it will be given to you seek and you will find knock and the door will be opened whenever you knock. The invitation is always current.
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γίνομαι
he may become so,
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γίνομαι
To become, to come into being, to happen. Ginomai. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. What is true in heaven is meant to become true on earth through prayer.
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γέεννα
of hell
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γέεννα
valley of (the son of) Hinnom; ge-henna (or Ge-Hinnom), a valley of Jerusalem, used (figuratively) as a name for the place (or state) of everlasting punishment
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ὑποκριτής
hypocrites!
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ὑποκριτής
an actor under an assumed character (stage-player), i.e. (figuratively) a dissembler ("hypocrite"
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προσήλυτος
convert,
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προσήλυτος
an arriver from a foreign region, i.e. (specially), an acceder (convert) to Judaism ("proselyte")
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Φαρισαῖος
Pharisees
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Φαρισαῖος
a separatist, i.e. exclusively religious; a Pharisean, i.e. Jewish sectary
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ποιέω
to make
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ποιέω
to make or do (in a very wide application, more or less direct)
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περιάγω
you traverse
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περιάγω
to take around (as a companion); reflexively, to walk around
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ξηρός
dry land
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ξηρός
arid; by implication, shrunken, earth (as opposed to water)
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θάλασσα
sea
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θάλασσα
the sea (genitive case or specially)
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διπλοῦς
twofold more
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διπλοῦς
two-fold
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γραμματεύς
scribes
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