Mark 12:40

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Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

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

For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, weighed down with sins and swayed by various impulses,

And when you pray, do not use empty repetitions as the Gentiles do. For they think that they will be heard for their many words.

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

You serpents! You brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not ready himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.