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

Matthew 23:14

Mark 12:40

2 Timothy 3:6

For

Titus 1:16

The same

General references

Matthew 23:6

Bible References

Devour

Alas for you, Teachers of the Law and Pharisees, hypocrites that you are! You destroy widow's houses, even while pretending to make long prayers; therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

They are the men that rob widows of their homes, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier."

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

For

Meanwhile the people had gathered in thousands, so that they trod upon one another, when Jesus, addressing himself to his disciples, began by saying to them: "Be on your guard against the leaven--that is, the hypocrisy--of the Pharisees.

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

Never at any time, as you know, did we use the language of flattery, or make false professions in order to hide selfish aims. God will bear witness to that.

Men will be selfish, mercenary, boastful, haughty, and blasphemous; disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, impure,

They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.

The same

I tell you that the doom of Sodom will be more bearable on 'That Day' than the doom of that town.

The servant who knows his master's wishes and yet does not prepare and act accordingly will receive many lashes;

Yet, I tell you, the doom of Tyre and Sidon will be more bearable in the 'Day of Judgment' than yours.

I do not want many of you, my Brothers, to become teachers, knowing, as you do, that we who teach shall be judged by a more severe standard than others.

General references

and like to have the place of honor at dinner, and the best seats in the Synagogues,