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 deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey.

if you do not oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:

In you have they set light by father and mother; in the midst of you have they dealt by oppression with the foreigner; in you have they wronged the fatherless and the widow.

They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;

Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.

You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;

15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites. For you travel around by sea and land to make one proselyte; and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much of a son of hell as yourselves.

those who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation."

For of these are those who creep into houses, and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

For

Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but do not do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.

You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),

For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

They profess that they know God, but by their works they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.

The same

I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.

That servant, who knew his lord's will, and did not prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,

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

Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.

General references

and love the place of honor at feasts, the best seats in the synagogues,