Matthew 23:14

Bible in Basic English 1965

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you go about land and sea to get one disciple and, having him, you make him twice as much a son of hell as yourselves.

Cross References

Job 22:9

You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.

Job 31:16

If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;

Exodus 22:22

Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.

Matthew 11:24

But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.

Matthew 23:13

But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 23:33

For this reason, I send you prophets, and wise men, and scribes: some of them you will put to death and put on the cross, and to some of them you will give blows in your Synagogues, driving them from town to town;

Mark 12:40

Who take away the property of widows, and before the eyes of men make long prayers; these will be judged more hardly.

Luke 12:48

But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.

Luke 20:47

Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.

2 Timothy 3:6

For these are they who go secretly into houses, making prisoners of foolish women, weighted down with sin, turned from the way by their evil desires,

Titus 1:10

For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,

James 3:1

Do not all be teachers, my brothers, because we teachers will be judged more hardly than others.

2 Peter 2:14

Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;

2 Peter 2:3

And in their desire for profit they will come to you with words of deceit, like traders doing business in souls: whose punishment has been ready for a long time and their destruction is watching for them.