Luke 20:47 - Modern King James Version

⁴⁷ who devour widows' houses, and make long prayers for a show; the same shall receive a more severe condemnation.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴⁷ which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴⁷ Who make away with and devour widows' houses, and [to cover it up] with pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation (the heavier sentence, the severer punishment).

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴⁷ who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.

Common English Bible

⁴⁷ They are the ones who cheat widows out of their homes, and to show off they say long prayers. They will be judged most harshly.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴⁷ who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayers. These will receive the greater damnation."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴⁷ Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

Luke 20:47 Tagairtí Cros

Isaiah 10:2

to turn aside the needy from judgment, and to steal the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and they rob the orphans!

Ezekiel 22:7

In you they have despised father and mother. In your midst they have dealt with the stranger by oppression. In you they oppressed the orphan and the widow.

Ezekiel 33:31

And they come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words. But they will not do them. For with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their unjust gain.

Amos 2:7

panting after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turning aside the way of the meek. And a man and his father will go in to the same woman, to defile My holy name.

Micah 2:2

And they covet and seize fields; and houses, and take them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

Micah 2:8

Even yesterday, My people has risen up like an enemy; you strip off a cloak along with an outer robe, from those who pass by trustingly, those returning from war.

Micah 3:2

You who hate the good and love the evil; who pull their skin off them, and their flesh from their bones;

Matthew 23:13

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

Matthew 23:14

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

Mark 12:40

who devour widows' houses, and as a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation.

Luke 12:1

In the meantime, when there had gathered together an innumerable crowd of people, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Luke 20:46

Beware of the scribes who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the first seats in the synagogues, and the chief places at the feasts;

Luke 21:1

And looking up, He saw the rich men casting their gifts into the treasury.

1 Thessalonians 2:5

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor with pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

Titus 1:16

They profess that they know God, but in their works they deny Him, being abominable and disobedient and reprobate to every good work.

James 3:1

My brothers, do not be many teachers, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.