Mark 12:40

Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

But they cheat widows and take their homes. Then they try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. God will punish them very much.”

Cross References

Luke 20:47

But they cheat widows and take their homes. Then they try to make themselves look good by saying long prayers. God will punish them very much.”

Matthew 23:33

“You are snakes! You are from a family of poisonous snakes! You will not escape God. You will all be judged guilty and go to hell!

Matthew 23:13

“It will be bad for you teachers of the law and you Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You close the way for people to enter God’s kingdom. You yourselves don’t enter, and you stop those who are trying to enter.

Matthew 6:7

“And when you pray, don’t be like the people who don’t know God. They say the same things again and again. They think that if they say it enough, their god will hear them.

2 Timothy 3:6

Some of them go into homes and get control over weak women, whose lives are full of sin—women who are led into sin by all the things they want.

Ezekiel 22:25

The prophets in Jerusalem are making evil plans. They are like a lion—it roars when it begins to eat the animal it caught. They have destroyed many lives. They have taken many valuable things and made widows of many of the women in Jerusalem.

Micah 2:2

They want fields, so they take them. They want houses, so they take them. They cheat a man and take his house and his land.

Matthew 23:14

Mark 12:39

They love to have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

2 Corinthians 11:20

I say this because you are even patient with someone who forces you to do things and uses you. You are patient with those who trick you, or think they are better than you, or hit you in the face!