Luke 20:47

These scribes exploit vulnerable widows while masking their greed with lengthy prayers, and will face greater judgment.

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• Mark 12:40They defraud widows of their houses, and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will receive greater condemnation.”
• Jas 3:1Not many of you should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we who teach will be judged more strictly.
• Luke 12:1In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Luke 12:47–48That servant who knows his master’s will but does not get ready or follow his instructions will be beaten with many blows.
• Titus 1:16They profess to know God, but by their actions they deny Him. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good deed.
• Jer 7:6–10if you no longer oppress the foreigner and the fatherless and the widow, and if you no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods to your own harm,
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who trample the needy, who do away with the poor of the land,
• Mic 3:2You hate good and love evil. You tear the skin from my people and strip the flesh from their bones.
• Luke 10:12–14I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom than for that town.
• Isa 10:2to deprive the poor of fair treatment and withhold justice from the oppressed of My people, to make widows their prey and orphans their plunder.
• Matt 11:22–24But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
• Ezek 33:31So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
• Matt 23:13Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
• Amos 2:7They trample on the heads of the poor as on the dust of the earth; they push the needy out of their way. A man and his father have relations with the same girl and so profane My holy name.
• Matt 23:26–28Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
• Mic 2:2They covet fields and seize them; they take away houses. They deprive a man of his home, a fellow man of his inheritance.
• 2 Tim 3:2–6For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
• Mic 2:8But of late My people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from unsuspecting passersby like men returning from battle.
• 1 Th 2:5As you know, we never used words of flattery or any pretext for greed. God is our witness!
• Ezek 22:7Father and mother are treated with contempt. Within your walls the foreign resident is exploited, the fatherless and the widow are oppressed.

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