Luke 6:39
Good News Translation
And Jesus told them this parable: "One blind man cannot lead another one; if he does, both will fall into a ditch.

New Revised Standard Version
He also told them a parable: “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?

Contemporary English Version
Jesus also used some sayings as he spoke to the people. He said: Can one blind person lead another blind person? Won't they both fall into a ditch?

New American Bible
And he told them a parable, “Can a blind person guide a blind person? Will not both fall into a pit?

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

Can.

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

Matthew 15:14 Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Matthew 23:16-26 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. . . .

Romans 2:19 Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

1 Timothy 6:3-5 If any man teach otherwise and consent not to the sound words of our Lord Jesus Christ and to that doctrine which is according to godliness, . . .

2 Timothy 3:13 But evil men and seducers shall grow worse and worse: erring, and driving into error,

shall.

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.

Jeremiah 14:15,16 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning the prophets that prophesy in my name, whom I did not send, that say: Sword and famine shall not be in this land: By sword and famine shall those prophets be consumed. . . .

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. . . .

Zechariah 11:15-17 And the Lord said to me: Take to thee yet the instruments of a foolish shepherd. . . .

Matthew 23:33 You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

Context
Do Not Judge
38Give: and it shall be given to you: good measure and pressed down and shaken together and running over shall they give into your bosom. For with the same measure that you shall mete withal, it shall be measured to you again. 39And he spoke also to them a similitude: Can the blind lead the blind? Do they not both fall into the ditch? 40The disciple is not above his master: but every one shall be perfect, if he be as his master.…
Cross References
Matthew 13:3
And he spoke to them many things in parables, saying: Behold the sower went forth to sow.

Matthew 15:14
Let them alone: they are blind, and leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both fall into the pit.

Luke 6:38
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