Mark 12:40

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretense are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

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  • Matt 23:13 : 13 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.
  • Luke 20:47 : 47 who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
  • Matt 23:33 : 33 `Serpents! brood of vipers! how may ye escape from the judgment of the gehenna?
  • Matt 6:7 : 7 `And -- praying -- ye may not use vain repetitions like the nations, for they think that in their much speaking they shall be heard,
  • Matt 11:22-24 : 22 but I say to you, to Tyre and Sidon it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than for you. 23 `And thou, Capernaum, which unto the heaven wast exalted, unto hades shalt be brought down, because if in Sodom had been done the mighty works that were done in thee, it had remained unto this day; 24 but I say to you, to the land of Sodom it shall be more tolerable in a day of judgment than to thee.'
  • Ezek 22:25 : 25 A conspiracy of its prophets `is' in its midst, as a roaring lion tearing prey; The soul they have devoured, Wealth and glory they have taken, Its widows have multiplied in its midst.
  • Mic 3:1-4 : 1 And I say, `Hear, I pray you, heads of Jacob, And ye judges of the house of Israel, Is it not for you to know the judgment? 2 Ye who are hating good, and loving evil, Taking violently their skin from off them, And their flesh from off their bones, 3 And who have eaten the flesh of My people, And their skin from off them have stript, And their bones they have broken, And they have spread `them' out as in a pot, And as flesh in the midst of a caldron. 4 Then do they cry unto Jehovah, And He doth not answer them, And hideth His face from them at that time, As they have made evil their doings.
  • Luke 12:47-48 : 47 `And that servant, who having known his lord's will, and not having prepared, nor having gone according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes, 48 and he who, not having known, and having done things worthy of stripes, shall be beaten with few; and to every one to whom much was given, much shall be required from him; and to whom they did commit much, more abundantly they will ask of him.
  • 2 Tim 3:6 : 6 for of these there are those coming into the houses and leading captive the silly women, laden with sins, led away with desires manifold,

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