Mark 12:40 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴⁰ They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁰ which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁰ Who devour widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers. They will receive the heavier [sentence of] condemnation.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁰ they that devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater condemnation.

Common English Bible

⁴⁰ They are the ones who cheat widows out of their homes, and to show off they say long prayers. They will be judged most harshly.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁰ who devour the houses of widows under the pretense of long prayers. These shall receive the more extensive judgment."

Mark 12:40 Cross References

Luke 20:47

They devour widows’ houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Matthew 23:33

You snakes, you brood of vipers! How can you escape the judgment of hell?

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you lock people out of the kingdom of heaven. For you do not go in yourselves, and when others are going in you stop them.

Matthew 6:7

“When you are praying, do not heap up empty phrases as the gentiles do, for they think that they will be heard because of their many words.

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who make their way into households and captivate immature women, overwhelmed by their sins and swayed by all kinds of desires,

Ezekiel 22:25

Its princes within it are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows within it.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, houses and take them away; they oppress householder and house, people and their inheritance.

Mark 12:39

and to have the best seats in the synagogues and places of honor at banquets!

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you put up with it when someone makes slaves of you or preys upon you or takes advantage of you or puts on airs or gives you a slap in the face.