Matthew 23:14

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Summary

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

For ye

Therefore

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Luke 19:46

Bible References

For ye

they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"

Some of them worm their way into families and get hold of the women-folk who feel crushed by the burden of their sins ??wayward creatures of impulse,

For there are plenty of insubordinate creatures who impose on people with their empty arguments, particularly those who have come over from Judaism;

Therefore

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

I tell you, it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you."

whereas he who was ignorant and did what deserves a beating, will receive few lashes. He who has much given him will have much required from him, and he who has much entrusted to him will have all the more demanded of him.

My brothers, do not swell the ranks of the teachers; remember, we teachers will be judged with special strictness.

in their lust they will exploit you with cunning arguments ??men whose doom comes apace from of old, and destruction is awake upon their trail.

General references

"It is written," he told them, "my house shall be a house of prayer, but you have made it a den of robbers."