Luke 20:47

New International Version

They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

Cross References

Mark 12:40

They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

James 3:1

Not many of you should become teachers, my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him. They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.

Luke 12:1

Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Matthew 23:13

“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.

Micah 3:2

you who hate good and love evil; who tear the skin from my people and the flesh from their bones;

Micah 2:8

Lately my people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off the rich robe from those who pass by without a care, like men returning from battle.

Amos 2:7

They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the ground and deny justice to the oppressed. Father and son use the same girl and so profane my holy name.

Ezekiel 33:31

My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.

Isaiah 10:2

to deprive the poor of their rights and withhold justice from the oppressed of my people, making widows their prey and robbing the fatherless.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

You know we never used flattery, nor did we put on a mask to cover up greed—God is our witness.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields and seize them, and houses, and take them. They defraud people of their homes, they rob them of their inheritance.

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have treated father and mother with contempt; in you they have oppressed the foreigner and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.

Luke 20:46

“Beware of the teachers of the law. They like to walk around in flowing robes and love to be greeted with respect in the marketplaces and have the most important seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.

Luke 21:1

As Jesus looked up, he saw the rich putting their gifts into the temple treasury.