The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not declined from thy law.
Luke 16:14 - King James Version (Oxford) 1769 And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. Tuilleadh leaganachaAmplified Bible - Classic Edition Now the Pharisees, who were covetous and lovers of money, heard all these things [taken together], and they began to sneer at and ridicule and scoff at Him. American Standard Version (1901) And the Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things; and they scoffed at him. Common English Bible The Pharisees, who were money-lovers, heard all this and sneered at Jesus. Catholic Public Domain Version But the Pharisees, who were greedy, were listening to all these things. And they ridiculed him. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Now the Pharisees, who were covetous, heard all these things: and they derided him. English Standard Version 2016 The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him. |
The proud have had me greatly in derision: Yet have I not declined from thy law.
He is despised and rejected of men; a man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief: and we hid as it were our faces from him; he was despised, and we esteemed him not.
Yea, they are greedy dogs which can never have enough, and they are shepherds that cannot understand: they all look to their own way, every one for his gain, from his quarter.
For from the least of them even unto the greatest of them every one is given to covetousness; and from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
Therefore will I give their wives unto others, and their fields to them that shall inherit them: for every one from the least even unto the greatest is given to covetousness, from the prophet even unto the priest every one dealeth falsely.
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
he said unto them, Give place: for the maid is not dead, but sleepeth. And they laughed him to scorn.
And he said unto them, Take heed, and beware of covetousness: for a man's life consisteth not in the abundance of the things which he possesseth.
which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
And the people stood beholding. And the rulers also with them derided him, saying, He saved others; let him save himself, if he be Christ, the chosen of God.
For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
and others had trial of cruel mockings and scourgings, yea, moreover of bonds and imprisonment: