Matthew 23:32
Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.
Cross-reference
In Matthew 12:45, the unclean spirit returns with seven worse spirits, making the final condition worse — similar progression of increasing evil as 'filling up the measure'.
Numbers 32:14 warns of a brood rising in their fathers' place to increase anger — directly parallels Jesus' charge to fill the measure of fathers.
Genesis 15:16 uses 'iniquity of the Amorites not yet complete' — the same concept of sin reaching full measure that Jesus applies to the Pharisees.
Revelation 14:15's ripe harvest symbolizes judgment when sin's measure is full, echoing the 'fill up the measure' in Matthew 23:32.
1 Thessalonians 2:16 directly uses the phrase 'fill up the measure of their sins' about the Jews opposing the gospel — a direct parallel to Jesus's charge.
Amos 4:4 ironically commands 'sin yet more' — directly paralleling Jesus's call for the Pharisees to fill up the measure of their fathers' sins.
In Daniel 8:23, the rise of a fierce king occurs when transgressors have reached their full measure — the same concept of sin reaching its peak that Jesus applies to the Pharisees.
In Ezekiel 20:30, God asks if Israel will defile themselves like their ancestors — the same pattern of continuing ancestral sins that Jesus accuses the Pharisees of doing.
Lamentations 5:7 laments bearing the iniquities of ancestors — the inherited guilt that the Pharisees complete by their actions.
Jeremiah 32:18 speaks of God repaying fathers' guilt into the laps of their children — the principle behind filling the ancestors' measure.
Jeremiah 7:26 says the people did worse than their ancestors — the same escalation Jesus commands by filling up the fathers' measure.
Isaiah 65:7 explicitly links ancestors' and children's iniquities and promises full payment — directly parallel to filling the measure of the fathers.
Psalm 79:8 pleads for God not to remember ancestral sins — the opposite of Jesus' command to complete them.
Judges 2:19 describes Israel becoming more corrupt than their fathers — strong parallel to the Pharisees filling the measure of ancestral sin.
Ezekiel 18:14 shows a son who avoids his father's sins, contrasting the Pharisees who instead fill up their ancestors' measure of sin.
Psalm 106:6 confesses that both the people and their ancestors sinned — the same inherited guilt Jesus says the Pharisees are filling up.
2 Chronicles 28:13 warns against adding guilt to existing sins — echoes the idea of filling up the measure of sin.
2 Kings 21:20 shows Amon following his father Manasseh's evil — a similar pattern of continuing ancestral sin.