Luke 11:52 in every translation
Leer en españolThe same verse in each translation we publish, grouped by language and by the tradition that made it. Numbering is matched for each text (for example, Psalms in the Septuagint).
English
Catholic
DRB Douay-Rheims (Challoner), American Edition 1899
Woe to you lawyers, for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you yourselves have not entered in, and those that were entering in, you have hindered.
CPDV Catholic Public Domain Version
Woe to you, experts in the law! For you have taken away the key of knowledge. You yourselves do not enter, and those who were entering, you would have prohibited.”
Protestant
WEB World English Bible (Classic, with Deuterocanon)
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
WEBBE World English Bible British Edition (with Deuterocanon)
Woe to you lawyers! For you took away the key of knowledge. You didn’t enter in yourselves, and those who were entering in, you hindered.”
KJV King James Version (with Apocrypha)
Woe unto you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
RV Revised Version with Apocrypha
Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
MSB Majority Standard Bible
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.”
ASV American Standard Version (1901)
Woe unto you lawyers! for ye took away the key of knowledge: ye entered not in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
LSV Literal Standard Version
Woe to you, the lawyers, because you took away the key of the knowledge; you yourselves did not enter; and you hindered those coming in.”
Read in context · Literal Standard Version. Copyright © 2020 Covenant Press. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/englsv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Darby Darby Translation
Woe unto you, the doctors of the law, for ye have taken away the key of knowledge; yourselves have not entered in, and those who were entering in ye have hindered.
Webster Noah Webster's Bible (1833)
Woe to you, lawyers! for ye have taken away the key of knowledge: ye have not entered in yourselves, and them that were entering in ye hindered.
GNV Geneva Bible (1599)
Wo be to you, Lawyers: for ye haue taken away the key of knowledge: ye entred not in your selues, and them that came in, ye forbade.
ULB Unlocked Literal Bible
Woe to you teachers of Jewish laws, because you have taken away the key of knowledge; you do not enter in yourselves, and you hinder those who are entering.”
Read in context · Unlocked Literal Bible. Copyright © 2017 Door43 World Missions Community. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engULB/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Tyndale Tyndale New Testament (1534)
Wo be to you lawears: for ye have taken awaye the keye of knowledge ye entred not in youre selves and them that came in ye forbade.
Individual translator
YLT Young's Literal Translation
'Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'
FBV Free Bible Version
Shame on you lawyers! You have removed the key of knowledge. You didn't go in yourselves, and you prevented others from going in too.”
Read in context · Free Bible Version. Copyright © 2018 Dr. Jonathan Gallagher. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/engfbv/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Scholarly edition
BBE Bible in Basic English
A curse is on you, teachers of the law! for you have taken away the key of knowledge: you did not go in yourselves, and you got in the way of those who were going in.
Spanish
Catholic
Scío Scío de San Miguel New Testament (1797)
¡Ay de vosotros, Doctores de la Ley, que os alzasteis con la llave de la ciencia! vosotros nó entrasteis, y habéis prohibido á los que entraban.
Protestant
RV1909 Reina-Valera 1909
¡Ay de vosotros, doctores de la ley! que habéis quitado la llave de la ciencia; vosotros mismos no entrasteis, y á los que entraban impedisteis.
ONBV Biblica Open New Living Bible (Nueva Biblia Viva 2008)
»¡Ay de ustedes, maestros de la ley!, porque se han quedado con el control del conocimiento. Ustedes mismos no entran; y a los que quieren entrar, no los dejan».
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PDT God's Word for You (Latin American Textual Bible)
¡Ay de ustedes, los doctores de la Ley, porque quitaron la llave del conocimiento! Ustedes no entraron e impidieron a los que querían entrar.
Read in context · Palabra de Dios para ti © 2020 Asociación Bíblica Latinoamericana. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spapddpt/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
Individual translator
VBL Free Bible Version (Spanish)
¡Qué lástima me dan ustedes! Pues le han quitado a la gente la llave de las puertas del conocimiento. Ni ustedes entraron, ni permitieron que otros entraran”.
Read in context · Versión Biblia Libre. Copyright © 2018-2020 Jonathan Gallagher y Shelly Barrios de Avila. Texto de eBible.org (https://ebible.org/spavbl/), sin cambios. Licencia CC BY-SA 4.0.
BES Bible in Simple Spanish (2026)
¡Ay de ustedes, intérpretes de la Ley!, porque han quitado la llave del conocimiento. Ustedes mismos no entraron, y a los que querían entrar se lo impidieron.
Read in context · La Biblia en Español Sencillo, traducida y editada por Irma Flores (AudioBiblia.org).
Greek
Orthodox
PT1904 Patriarchal Text 1904 (accented, eBible edition)
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως· αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθετε, καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε.
PT Patriarchal Text (Antoniades 1904/1912)
ουαι υμιν τοις νομικοις, οτι ηρατε την κλειδα της γνωσεως· αυτοι ουκ εισηλθετε, και τους εισερχομενους εκωλυσατε.
Read in context · Patriarchal Text, Antoniades 1904/1912 edition, verified by Maurice A. Robinson and Jussi Ala-Konni (https://github.com/byztxt/greektext-antoniades). Public domain.
Individual translator
TR Textus Receptus (Boyd collation)
Οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως· αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθετε, καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε.
Scholarly edition
RP2018 Byzantine Textform (Robinson-Pierpont 2018)
ουαι υμιν τοισ νομικοισ οτι ηρατε την κλειδα τησ γνωσεωσ αυτοι ουκ εισηλθετε και τουσ εισερχομενουσ εκωλυσατε
Nestle 1904 Nestle Greek New Testament (1904)
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως· αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθατε καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε.
SBLGNT SBL Greek New Testament
οὐαὶ ὑμῖν τοῖς νομικοῖς, ὅτι ἤρατε τὴν κλεῖδα τῆς γνώσεως· αὐτοὶ οὐκ εἰσήλθατε καὶ τοὺς εἰσερχομένους ἐκωλύσατε.
Read in context · The Greek New Testament: SBL Edition. Copyright 2010 by the Society of Biblical Literature and Logos Bible Software. Text from eBible.org (https://ebible.org/grcsbl/), unaltered. Licensed CC BY 4.0.
Latin
Catholic
VUL Clementine Vulgate
Væ vobis, legisperitis, quia tulistis clavem scientiæ: ipsi non introistis, et eos qui introibant, prohibuistis.
Church Slavonic
Orthodox
Slavonic Church Slavonic Bible (Elizabeth Bible)
Го́ре ва́мъ зако́нникѡмъ, ꙗ҆́кѡ взѧ́сте клю́чь разꙋмѣ́нїѧ: са́ми не внидо́сте, и҆ входѧ́щымъ возбрани́сте.
Read in context · Church Slavonic text: Ponomar Project (github.com/typiconman/ponomar), © 2006–2018 Aleksandr Andreev and others, licensed under the GNU General Public License v3 or later. Changes for this site (2026-10-18): lectionary pericope markers, marginal glosses and the closing note of Genesis removed, Psalm verses renumbered to the Russian Synodal numbering, joined verses noted; the words are unchanged.
Russian
Orthodox
Synodal Russian Synodal Bible (1876)
Горе вам, законникам, что вы взяли ключ разумения: сами не вошли, и входящим воспрепятствовали.
Greek (modern)
Individual translator
Vamvas Modern Greek Bible: Vamvas (1850)
Ουαί εις εσάς τους νομικούς, διότι αφηρέσατε το κλειδίον της γνώσεως· σεις δεν εισήλθετε και τους εισερχομένους ημποδίσατε.
Serbian
Individual translator
DK Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Cyrillic)
Тешко вама законици што узесте кључ од знања: сами не уђосте, а који хтеше да уђу, забранисте им.
DK latinica Serbian Bible: Daničić–Karadžić (Latin script)
Teško vama zakonici što uzeste ključ od znanja: sami ne uđoste, a koji hteše da uđu, zabraniste im.
Arabic
Protestant
SVD Arabic Bible: Smith–Van Dyck (1865)
وَيْلٌ لَكُمْ أَيُّهَا ٱلنَّامُوسِيُّونَ! لِأَنَّكُمْ أَخَذْتُمْ مِفْتَاحَ ٱلْمَعْرِفَةِ. مَا دَخَلْتُمْ أَنْتُمْ، وَٱلدَّاخِلُونَ مَنَعْتُمُوهُمْ».
Not in these translations (5)
Brenton, LXXUP, JPS, LXX, WLC