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 keep the poor from getting a fair trial
and to deprive the afflicted among my people of justice,
so that widows can be their spoil
and they can plunder the fatherless.

if you no longer oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,

Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the foreign resident is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.

They trample the heads of the poor
on the dust of the ground
and block the path of the needy.
A man and his father have sexual relations
with the same girl,
profaning My holy name.

Hear this, you who trample on the needy
and do away with the poor of the land,

They covet fields and seize them;
they also take houses.
They deprive a man of his home,
a person of his inheritance.

You hate good and love evil.
You tear off people’s skin
and strip their flesh from their bones.

[“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher punishment.”

For among them are those who worm their way into households and capture idle women burdened down with sins, led along by a variety of passions,

For

In these circumstances, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to His disciples first: “Be on your guard against the yeast

of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

So My people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest profit.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so the outside of it may also become clean.

For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives—God is our witness—

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,

They profess to know God, but they deny Him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified for any good work.

The same

I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.

And that slave who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.

But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.

Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive a stricter judgment,

General references

They love the place of honor at banquets, the front seats in the synagogues,