Mark 12:40

Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

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

Cross References

Ezekiel 22:25

Her princes in the midst of her are like a roaring lion tearing the prey; they have devoured human lives; they have taken treasure and precious things; they have made many widows in the midst of her.

Micah 2:2

They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away; they oppress a man and his house, a man and his inheritance.

Matthew 23:13

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you shut the kingdom of heaven against men; for you neither enter yourselves, nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Matthew 23:14

Matthew 23:33

You serpents, you brood of vipers, how are you to escape being sentenced to hell?

Matthew 6:7

“And in praying do not heap up empty phrases as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their many words.

Mark 12:39

and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts,

Luke 20:47

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

2 Corinthians 11:20

For you bear it if a man makes slaves of you, or preys upon you, or takes advantage of you, or puts on airs, or strikes you in the face.

2 Timothy 3:6

For among them are those who make their way into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and swayed by various impulses,