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Luke 20:47

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgement.’

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They devour   widows’   houses and say long prayers   just for show. These will receive harsher judgement.’


Not many should become teachers, my brothers,  because you know that we will receive a stricter judgement.


They claim to know God,  but they deny him by their works.  They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.


Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling  on one another. He began to say to his disciples first,  ‘Be on your guard   against the leaven   , of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.


‘Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.   ,


You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.


But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.


They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.


So my people come to you in crowds,  sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.


to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.


For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy  motives   #– #God is our witness   #– #


They covet fields  and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.


Father and mother are treated with contempt,  and the resident foreigner is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.


‘Beware   of the scribes, who want to go around in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces, the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honour at banquets.


He  looked up and saw the rich dropping their offerings into the temple treasury.





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