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

2 Peter 2:14

Therefore

2 Peter 2:3

General references

Luke 19:46

Bible References

For ye

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

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,

For there are many rebellious men, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision.

They have eyes full of adultery, that never cease from sin; they entice unstable souls. They have hearts trained in greed. Accursed children!

Therefore

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

But I tell you that it shall be more tolerable on the day of judgment for the land of Sodom than for you."

But he who did not know, and committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask the more.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, for you know that we who teach will be judged with greater strictness.

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words; from long ago their condemnation has not been idle, and their destruction has not been asleep.

General references

saying to them, "It is written, 'My house shall be a house of prayer'; but you have made it a den of robbers."