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

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

Therefore

You snakes, offspring of snakes, how will you be kept from the punishment of hell?

But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.

General references

For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?

The bread of evil-doing is their food, the wine of violent acts their drink.

I will make clear what your righteousness is like and your works; you will have no profit in them.

Saying to them, It has been said, My house is to be a house of prayer, but you have made it a hole of thieves.