Matthew 15:14
Good News Translation
"Don't worry about them! They are blind leaders of the blind; and when one blind man leads another, both fall into a ditch."

New Revised Standard Version
Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.”

Contemporary English Version
Stay away from those Pharisees! They are like blind people leading other blind people, and all of them will fall into a ditch."

New American Bible
Let them alone; they are blind guides (of the blind). If a blind person leads a blind person, both will fall into a pit.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Let.

Hosea 4:17 Ephraim is a partaker with idols, let him alone.

1 Timothy 6:5 Conflicts of men corrupted in mind and who are destitute of the truth, supposing gain to be godliness.

they.

Matthew 23:16-24 Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor. . . .

Isaiah 9:16 And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.

Isaiah 42:19 Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, but he to whom I have sent my messengers? Who is blind, but he that is sold? or who is blind, but the servant of the Lord?

Isaiah 56:10 His watchmen are all blind, they are all ignorant: dumb dogs not able to bark, seeing vain things, sleeping and loving dreams.

Malachi 2:8 But you have departed out of the way, and have caused many to stumble at the law: you have made void the covenant of Levi, saith the Lord of hosts.

Luke 6:39 And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch?

And if.

Jeremiah 5:31 The prophets prophesied falsehood, and the priests clapped their hands: and my people loved such things: what then shall be done in the end thereof?

Jeremiah 6:15 They were confounded, because they committed abomination: yea, rather they were not confounded with confusion, and they knew not how to blush: wherefore they shall fall among them that fall: in the time of their visitation they shall fall down, saith the Lord.

Jeremiah 8:12 They are confounded, because they have committed abomination: yea rather they are not confounded with confusion, and they have not known how to blush: therefore shall they fall among them that fall; in the time of their visitation they shall fall, saith the Lord.

Ezekiel 14:9,10 And when the prophet shall err, and speak a word: I the Lord have deceived that prophet: and I will stretch forth my hand upon him, and will cut him off from the midst of my people Israel. . . .

Micah 3:6,7 Thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that make my people err: that bite with their teeth, and preach peace: and if a man give not something into their mouth, they prepare war against him. . . .

2 Peter 2:1,17 But there were also false prophets among the people, even as there shall be among you lying teachers who shall bring in sects of perdition and deny the Lord who bought them: bringing upon themselves swift destruction. . . .

Revelation 19:20 And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet who wrought signs before him, wherewith he seduced them who received the character of the beast and who adored his image. These two were cast alive into the pool of fire burning with brimstone.

Revelation 22:15 Without are dogs and sorcerers and unchaste and murderers and servers of idols and every one that loveth and maketh a lie.

Context
What Defiles a Man
13But he answering, said: Every plant which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit. 15And Peter answering, said to him: Expound to us this parable.…
Cross References
Isaiah 9:16
And they that call this people blessed, shall cause them to err: and they that are called blessed, shall be thrown down, headlong.

Isaiah 31:3
Egypt is man, and not God: and their horses, flesh, and not spirit: and the Lord shall put down his hand, and the helper shall fall, and he that is helped shall fall, and they shall all be confounded together.

Matthew 23:16
Woe to you, blind guides, that say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but he that shall swear by the gold of the temple is a debtor.

Matthew 23:24
Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Luke 6:39
And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch?

John 9:39
And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.

Matthew 15:13
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