Luke 20:47

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

Cross-references · 20

• Mark 12:40those who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.”
• Jas 3:1Let not many of you be teachers, my brothers, knowing that we will receive heavier judgment.
• Luke 12:1Meanwhile, when a multitude of many thousands had gathered together, so much so that they trampled on each other, he began to tell his disciples first of all, “Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
• Luke 12:47–48That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,
• Titus 1:16They profess that they know God, but by their deeds they deny him, being abominable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
• Jer 7:6–10if you don’t oppress the foreigner, the fatherless, and the widow, and don’t shed innocent blood in this place, neither walk after other gods to your own hurt:
• Amos 8:4–6Hear this, you who desire to swallow up the needy, and cause the poor of the land to fail,
• Mic 3:2You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;
• Luke 10:12–14I tell you, it will be more tolerable in that day for Sodom than for that city.
• Isa 10:2to deprive the needy from justice, and to rob the poor among my people of their rights, that widows may be their plunder, and that they may make the fatherless their prey!
• Matt 11:22–24But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.
• Ezek 33:31They come to you as the people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear your words, but don’t do them; for with their mouth they show much love, but their heart goes after their gain.
• Matt 23:13“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows’ houses, and as a pretense you make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.
• Amos 2:7They trample on the dust of the earth on the head of the poor, and deny justice to the oppressed; and a man and his father use the same maiden, to profane my holy name;
• Matt 23:26–28You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.
• Mic 2:2They covet fields, and seize them; and houses, and take them away: and they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage.
• 2 Tim 3:2–6For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
• Mic 2:8But lately my people have risen up as an enemy. You strip the robe and clothing from those who pass by without a care, returning from battle.
• 1 Th 2:5For neither were we at any time found using words of flattery, as you know, nor a cloak of covetousness (God is witness),
• Ezek 22:7In you have they treated father and mother with contempt. Among you they have oppressed the foreigner. In you they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.

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