Mark 12:38-40 - Warning To Beware Of The Scribes

³⁸ And he said to them in his teaching, Look from the scribes, wishing to walk in robes, and greetings in market-places, ³⁹ And first seats in synagogues, and first place at tables in first meals: ⁴⁰ They eating in widows' houses, and praying long for a pretext: these shall receive more abundant judgment.

⁴⁵ And all the people hearing, he said to his disciples, ⁴⁶ Hold from the scribes, wishing to walk about in robes, and loving greetings in the markets, and precedencies in assemblies, and the first places at tables at suppers; ⁴⁷ Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.