Matthew 23:14 - The Scriptures 1998

¹⁴ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you eat up widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. Because of this you shall receive greater judgment.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁴ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁴ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence.

American Standard Version (1901)

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Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁴ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment.

Matthew 23:14 Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless are crushed.

Job 31:16

If I have withheld the poor from pleasure, or caused the widow’s eyes to fail,

Exodus 22:22

“Do not afflict any widow or fatherless child.

Matthew 11:24

“But I say to you that it shall be more bearable for the land of Seḏ

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for you do not go in, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:33

“Serpents, brood of adders! How would you escape the judgment of Gehenna?

Mark 12:40

who are devouring widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. These shall receive greater judgment.”

Luke 12:48

“But he who did not know, yet did what deserved flogging, shall be beaten with few. And everyone to whom much is given, from him much shall be demanded. And to whom much has been entrusted, from him much more shall be asked.

Luke 20:47

who devour widows’ houses, and for a show make long prayers. They shall receive greater judgment.”

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who creep into households and captivate silly women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

Titus 1:10

For there are many unruly men, senseless talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision,

James 3:1

Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, knowing that we shall receive greater judgment.

2 Peter 2:14

having eyes filled with an adulteress, and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable beings, having a heart trained in greed, children of a curse,

2 Peter 2:3

and in greed, with fabricated words, they shall use you for gain. From of old their judgment does not linger, and their destruction does not slumber.