Luke 20:47

Good News Translation

who take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers! Their punishment will be all the worse!”

Cross References

Isaiah 10:2

That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.

Ezekiel 22:7

None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.

Ezekiel 33:31

So my people crowd in to hear what you have to say, but they don't do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.

Amos 2:7

They trample down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.

Micah 2:2

When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.

Micah 2:8

The Lord replies, “You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.

Micah 3:2

yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.

Matthew 23:13

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You lock the door to the Kingdom of heaven in people's faces, but you yourselves don't go in, nor do you allow in those who are trying to enter!

Mark 12:40

They take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers. Their punishment will be all the worse!”

Luke 12:1

As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, “Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees—I mean their hypocrisy.

Luke 20:46

“Be on your guard against the teachers of the Law, who like to walk around in their long robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplace; who choose the reserved seats in the synagogues and the best places at feasts;

Luke 21:1

Jesus looked around and saw rich people dropping their gifts in the Temple treasury,

1 Thessalonians 2:5

You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed—God is our witness!

Titus 1:16

They claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.

James 3:1

My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.