Matthew 23:14

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Summary

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

For ye

Therefore

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Bible References

For ye

You shall not harm or oppress any widow or fatherless child.

“You have sent widows away empty-handed,
And the arms (strength) of the fatherless have been broken.

“If I have withheld from the poor what they desired,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to look in vain [for relief],

[these scribes] who devour (confiscate) widows’ houses, and offer long prayers for appearance’s sake [to impress others]. These men will receive greater condemnation.”

These [men] who confiscate and devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense [to appear devout] offer long prayers. These [men] will receive the greater [sentence of] condemnation.”

For among them are those who worm their way into homes and captivate morally weak and spiritually-dwarfed women weighed down by [the burden of their] sins, easily swayed by various impulses,

For there are many rebellious men who are empty talkers [just windbags] and deceivers; especially those of the circumcision [those Jews who insist that Gentile believers must be circumcised and keep the Law in order to be saved].

They have eyes full of adultery, constantly looking for sin, enticing and luring away unstable souls. Having hearts trained in greed, [they are] children of a curse.

Therefore

You serpents, you spawn of vipers, how can you escape the penalty of hell?

But I say to you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment, than for you.”

but the one who did not know it and did things worthy of a beating, will receive only a few [lashes]. From everyone to whom much has been given, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will be judged by a higher standard [because we have assumed greater accountability and more condemnation if we teach incorrectly].

And in their greed they will exploit you with false arguments and twisted doctrine. Their sentence [of condemnation which God has decreed] from a time long ago is not idle [but is still in force], and their destruction and deepening misery is not asleep [but is on its way].

General references

“For what is the hope of the godless, even though he has gained [in this world],
When God takes his life?

For they eat the bread of wickedness
And drink the wine of violence.

“I will declare your [hypocritical] righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not benefit you.

saying to them, “It is written, ‘My house shall be a house of prayer’; but you have made it a robbers’ den.”