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A Conservative Version
who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"
American Standard Version
who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
Amplified
An Understandable Version
They consume widows' houses [i.e., by foreclosing on them] and [then] cover it up by offering lengthy prayers. These people will receive a heavier judgment."
Anderson New Testament
who eat up the houses of widows, and, for a pretext, make long prayers. These shall receive the greater condemnation.
Bible in Basic English
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
Common New Testament
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation."
Daniel Mace New Testament
who under the pretext of their long prayers devour the fortunes of widows. wherefore they shall be punish'd with greater severity.
Darby Translation
who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.
Godbey New Testament
Who devour the houses of the widows, and pray long through pretext; they shall receive the greater judgment.
John Wesley New Testament
Who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater damnation.
Julia Smith Translation
Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.
King James 2000
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater condemnation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
Modern King James verseion
who devour widows' houses, and make long prayers for a show; the same shall receive a more severe condemnation.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which devour widows' houses, and that under a colour of long praying: The same shall receive greater damnation."
Moffatt New Testament
they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"
Montgomery New Testament
"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."
NET Bible
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."
New Heart English Bible
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
Noyes New Testament
who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive a far greater condemnation.
Sawyer New Testament
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; they shall receive a greater judgment.
The Emphasized Bible
Who devour the houses of widows, and, for a show, are a long time at prayer. These, shall receive, a heavier sentence.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
who devour the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers: these shall receive a more abundant punishment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier."
Webster
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Weymouth New Testament
who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."
Williams New Testament
men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will receive a much heavier sentence."
World English Bible
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
Worrell New Testament
who devour the houses of widows; and, for a pretense, make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation."
Worsley New Testament
who devour widows houses, and for a shew of religion make long prayers: these shall receive a heavier sentence.
Youngs Literal Translation
who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
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Jesus Christ » History of » Exposes the hypocrisies of the scribes and pharisees (in jerusalem)
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Word Count of 36 Translations in Luke 20:47
Verse Info
Context Readings
Warning To Beware Of The Scribes
46 Beware of the scholars, who desire to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces, and chief seats in the synagogues, and places of honor at the feasts, 47 who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.
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Cross References
Mark 12:40
those who devour widows' houses, and praying long in pretence. These will receive greater condemnation.
Isaiah 10:2
to turn aside the needy from justice, and to rob the poor of my people of their right, that widows may be their spoil, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
Jeremiah 7:6-10
if ye do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your own hurt,
Ezekiel 22:7
In thee they have made light of father and mother. In the midst of thee they have dealt with the sojourner by oppression. In thee they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to thee as the people come, and they sit before thee as my people. And they hear thy words, but do not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
Amos 2:7
those who pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father go to the [same] maiden, to profane my holy name.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, O ye who would swallow up a needy man, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
Micah 2:2
And 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.
Micah 2:8
But of late my people have risen up as an enemy. Ye strip off the robe with the garment from those who pass by securely [as men] turning back from war.
Micah 3:2
Ye who hate the good, and love the evil, who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones,
Matthew 11:22-24
Nevertheless I say to you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.
Matthew 23:13
Woe to you, scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because ye close up the kingdom of the heavens ahead of men. For ye enter not in, nor do ye allow those who are entering to enter in.
Matthew 23:26-28
Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, so that the outside of them may also become clean.
Luke 10:12-14
I say to you, that it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
Luke 12:1
During which time the myriads of the multitude having gathered together so as to trample each other, he began first to say to his disciples, Take heed to yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:47-48
And that bondman who knew his lord's will, and who did not prepare, nor do according to his will, will be beaten much,
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For we came neither in word of flattery (at any time as ye know) nor a pretense of greed (God is witness)
2 Timothy 3:2-6
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, blasphemous, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, impious,
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but in their works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and worthless for every good work.
James 3:1
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive greater judgment.