Luke 20:47

Modern English Version

who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation.”

Cross References

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from justice and to take away the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they have vexed the fatherless and the widow.

Ezekiel 33:31

They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they will not do them. They do the lustful desires in their mouth, and their heart goes after their covetousness.

Amos 2:7

They trample the head of the poor into the dust of the earth, and push the oppressed out of the way. A man and his father go in to the same woman, profaning My holy name.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses and take them. They defraud a man of his house, and a fellow man of his inheritance.

Micah 2:8

But lately My people rise up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by trustingly, like men returning from war.

Micah 3:2

You who hate good and love evil, who tear the skin from My people and the flesh from their bones;

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven against men. For you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

Matthew 23:14

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and for pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive the greater condemnation.

Mark 12:40

who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation.”

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when thousands of the crowd were assembled, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 20:46

“Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes and who love greetings in the marketplaces and the prominent seats in the synagogues and the seats of honor at banquets,

Luke 21:1

He looked up and saw the rich putting their gifts in the treasury.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time did we come with flattering words, as you know, nor with a pretext for greed. God is our witness.

Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God, but in their deeds they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and worthless for every good work.

James 3:1

My brothers, not many of you should become teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater judgment.