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.
Therefore
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For ye
Mark 12:40
and who swallow up the property of widows and then mask their wickedness by making long prayers: these men will receive far heavier punishment."
Luke 20:47
who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."
2 Timothy 3:6
Among them are included the men who make their way into private houses and carry off weak women as their prisoners--women who, weighed down by the burden of their sins, are led by ever-changing caprice,
Titus 1:10
For there are many that spurn authority--idle, talkative and deceitful persons, who, for the most part, are adherents of the Circumcision.
2 Peter 2:14
Their very eyes are full of adultery--being eyes which never cease from sin. These men set traps to catch unstedfast souls, their own hearts being well trained in greed. They are fore-doomed to God's curse!
Therefore
Matthew 23:33
O serpents, O vipers' brood, how are you to escape condemnation to Gehenna?
Matthew 11:24
Only I tell you all, that it will be more endurable for the land of Sodom on the day of Judgement than for thee."
Luke 12:48
But he who had not been told it and yet did what deserved the scourge, will receive but few lashes. To whomsoever much has been given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been entrusted, of him a larger amount will be demanded.
James 3:1
Do not be eager, my brethren, for many among you to become teachers; for you know that we teachers shall undergo severer judgement.
2 Peter 2:3
Thirsting for riches, they will trade on you with their canting talk. From of old their judgement has been working itself out, and their destruction has not been slumbering.
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Luke 19:46
"It is written," He said, "'And My house shall be the House of Prayer,' but you have made it a robbers' cave."