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Lexham Expanded Bible
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
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!"
A Conservative Version
who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.
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.
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 scribes, who like walking around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets, 47 who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
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Mark 12:40
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
Isaiah 10:2
to guide [the] needy away from legal claims, and to rob the justice from the poor of my people, to make widows their spoil; and they plunder orphans.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
you do not oppress [the] alien, [the] orphan, and [the] widow, you do not shed innocent blood in this place, and you do not go after other gods {to your harm},
Ezekiel 22:7
They have treated father and mother with contempt in you; {they violated} the alien with extortion; in the midst of you they mistreated [the] orphan and widow.
Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.
Amos 2:7
Those who trample the heads of the powerless into the dust of the ground and turn aside the way of the destitute, a man and his father {have sexual relations with} the same girl, so that [they] profane my holy name.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, those who trample on [the] poor and who annihilate the afflicted of [the] land,
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize [them], and houses, and they take [them] away. They oppress a man and his house; a man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:8
But {recently} my people have risen up as an enemy; from before the cloak you strip off the robe from those passing by [in] confidence, returning [from] war.
Micah 3:2
[Those of you who are] haters of good and lovers of evil, [who] tear their skin from them and their flesh from their bones,
Matthew 11:22-24
Nevertheless I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and for Sidon on the day of judgment than for you!
Matthew 23:13
"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.
Matthew 23:26-28
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside of it may become clean also.
Luke 10:12-14
I tell you that it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town!
Luke 12:1
During {this time} [when] a crowd of many thousands had gathered together, so that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, "Beware for yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Luke 12:47-48
And that slave who knew the will of his master and did not prepare or do according to his will {will be given a severe beating}.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
{For never} did we come with a word of flattery, just as you know, nor with a pretext of greediness (God [is] witness),
2 Timothy 3:2-6
for people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, arrogant, slanderers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.
James 3:1
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, [because you] know that we will receive a greater judgment.