Matthew 23:14

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

They are the men that rob widows of their homes, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier."

These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier."

For among them are to be found those who creep into homes and captivate weak women--women who, loaded with sins, and slaves to all kinds of passions,

There are, indeed, many unruly persons--great talkers who deceive themselves, principally converts from Judaism,

They have eyes only for adulteresses, eyes never tired of sin; they entice weak souls; their minds are trained to covet; they live under a curse.

Therefore

You serpents and brood of vipers! How can you escape being sentenced to the Pit?

Yet, I tell you, the doom of Sodom will be more bearable in the 'Day of Judgment' than yours."

while one who does not know his master's wishes, but acts so as to deserve a flogging, will receive but few. From every one to whom much has been given much will be expected, and from the man to whom much has been entrusted the more will be demanded.

I do not want many of you, my Brothers, to become teachers, knowing, as you do, that we who teach shall be judged by a more severe standard than others.

In their covetousness they will try to make you a source of profit by their fabrications; but for a long time past their Sentence has not been standing idle, nor their Ruin slumbering.

General references

Saying as he did so: "Scripture says--'My House shall be a House of Prayer'; but you have made it 'a den of robbers.'"