Mark 12:40 - Revised Standard Version CI

⁴⁰ who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make 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

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Matthew 6:7

“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,

Ezekiel 22:25

Her princes in the midst of her 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 in the midst of her.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Matthew 23:14

Mark 12:39

and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.