Luke 20:47

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

Cross-references · 20

• Mark 12:40Which devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.
• Jas 3:1My brethren, be not many masters, knowing that we shall receive the greater condemnation.
• Luke 12:1In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Luke 12:47–48And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.
• Jer 7:6–10If ye oppress not the stranger, the fatherless, and the widow, and shed not innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your hurt:
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, O ye that swallow up the needy, even to make the poor of the land to fail,
• Mic 3:2Who hate the good, and love the evil; who pluck off their skin from off them, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Luke 10:12–14But I say unto you, that it shall be more tolerable in that day for Sodom, than for that city.
• Isa 10:2To turn aside the needy from judgment, and to take away the right from the poor of my people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may rob the fatherless!
• Matt 11:22–24But I say unto you, It shall be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the day of judgment, than for you.
• Ezek 33:31And 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.
• Matt 23:13But 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.
• Amos 2:7That pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and turn aside the way of the meek: and a man and his father will go in unto the same maid, to profane my holy name:
• Matt 23:26–28Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.
• Mic 2:2And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• 2 Tim 3:2–6For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Mic 2:8Even of late my people is risen up as an enemy: ye pull off the robe with the garment from them that pass by securely as men averse from war.
• 1 Th 2:5For neither at any time used we flattering words, as ye know, nor a cloke of covetousness; God is witness:
• Ezek 22:7In thee have they set light by father and mother: in the midst of thee have they dealt by oppression with the stranger: in thee have they vexed the fatherless and the widow.

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