You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
Matthew 23:14 - King James 2000 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you swallow up widows' houses and for a pretense to cover it up make long prayers; therefore you will receive the greater condemnation and the heavier sentence. American Standard Version (1901)Catholic Public Domain Version Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you consume the houses of widows, praying long prayers. Because of this, you shall receive the greater judgment. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites: because you devour the houses of widows, praying long prayers. For this you shall receive the greater judgment. |
You have sent widows away empty, and the arms of the fatherless have been broken.
If I have withheld the poor from their desire, or have caused the eyes of the widow to fail;
But I say unto you, That it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment, than for you.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.
You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of hell?
Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
But he that knew not, and did commit things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few stripes. For unto whomever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater condemnation.
For of this sort are they who creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with various lusts,
For there are many unruly and vain talkers and deceivers, especially they of the circumcision:
My brethren, be not many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the severer judgment.
Having eyes full of adultery, and that cannot cease from sin; beguiling unstable souls: a heart they have exercised with covetous practices; cursed children:
And through covetousness shall they with false words exploit you: whose judgment of old now lingers not, and their destruction slumbers not.