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

'Any widow or orphan ye do not afflict;

Widows thou hast sent away empty, And the arms of the fatherless are bruised.

If I withhold from pleasure the poor, And the eyes of the widow do consume,

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

for there are many both insubordinate, vain-talkers, and mind-deceivers -- especially they of the circumcision --

having eyes full of adultery, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls, having an heart exercised in covetousnesses, children of a curse,

Therefore

'Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?

but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'

and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.

Many teachers become not, my brethren, having known that greater judgment we shall receive,

and in covetousness, with moulded words, of you they shall make merchandise, whose judgment of old is not idle, and their destruction doth not slumber.

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For what is the hope of the profane, When He doth cut off? When God doth cast off his soul?

For they have eaten bread of wickedness, And wine of violence they drink.

I declare thy righteousness, and thy works, And they do not profit thee.

saying to them, 'It hath been written, My house is a house of prayer -- but ye made it a den of robbers.'