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 afflict any widow or orphan.

“You have sent widows away empty,
And the strength of the orphans has been crushed.

“If I have kept the poor from their desire,
Or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail,

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers; these will receive greater condemnation.”

who devour widows’ houses, and for appearance’s sake offer long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”

For among them are those who

enter into households and captivate

weak women weighed down with sins, led on by various impulses,

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

having eyes full of adultery that never cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having a heart trained in greed, accursed children;

Therefore

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how will you escape the sentence of

hell?

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

but the one who did not know it, and committed deeds worthy of a flogging, will receive but few. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and to whom they entrusted much, of him they will ask all the more.

Let not many of you become teachers, my brethren, knowing that as such we will incur a stricter judgment.

and in their greed they will exploit you with false words; their judgment from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

General references

“For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off,
When God requires his life?

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

“I will declare your righteousness and your deeds,
But they will not profit you.

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