Luke 20:47

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Summary

Luke 20:47

Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Devour

For

The same

General references

Matthew 23:6

Bible References

Devour

to turn away the poor from judgment, and to take away the right from the afflicted of my people; that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

if ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed no innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt;

In thee have they made light of father and mother; in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger; in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek; and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name.

Hear this, ye that pant after the needy, even to cause to fail the poor of the land,

And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away; and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

Ye who hate the good, and love evil; who pluck off their skin from them, and their flesh from off their bones;

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who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.

For of these are they who are getting into houses, and leading captive silly women, laden with sins, led by various lusts,

For

In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

And they come unto thee as a people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they do them not; for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their dishonest gain.

Blind Pharisee, make clean first the inside of the cup and of the dish, that their outside also may become clean.

For we have not at any time been among you with flattering discourse, even as ye know, nor with a pretext for covetousness, God is witness;

for men shall be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, evil speakers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, profane,

They profess to know God, but in works deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and found worthless as to every good work.

The same

I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for Sodom in that day than for that city.

But that bondman who knew his own lord's will, and had not prepared himself nor done his will, shall be beaten with many stripes;

But I say to you, that it shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in judgment-day than for you.

Be not many teachers, my brethren, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.

General references

and love the chief place in feasts and the first seats in the synagogues,