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Amplified
New American Standard Bible
King James Version
Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Holman Bible
International Standard Version
They devour widows' houses and say long prayers to cover it up. They will receive greater condemnation!"
A Conservative Version
who devour widows' houses, and in pretence make long prayers. These will receive greater damnation.
American Standard Version
who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater condemnation.
An Understandable Version
They consume widows' houses [i.e., by foreclosing on them] and [then] cover it up by offering lengthy prayers. These people will receive a heavier judgment."
Anderson New Testament
who eat up the houses of widows, and, for a pretext, make long prayers. These shall receive the greater condemnation.
Bible in Basic English
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
Common New Testament
who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive greater condemnation."
Daniel Mace New Testament
who under the pretext of their long prayers devour the fortunes of widows. wherefore they shall be punish'd with greater severity.
Darby Translation
who devour the houses of widows, and as a pretext make long prayers. These shall receive a severer judgment.
Godbey New Testament
Who devour the houses of the widows, and pray long through pretext; they shall receive the greater judgment.
John Wesley New Testament
Who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; these shall receive greater damnation.
Julia Smith Translation
Who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence pray at great length; these shall receive more abundant judgment.
King James 2000
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater condemnation.
Lexham Expanded Bible
who devour the houses of widows and pray lengthy [prayers] for the sake of appearance. These will receive more severe condemnation!"
Modern King James verseion
who devour widows' houses, and make long prayers for a show; the same shall receive a more severe condemnation.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
which devour widows' houses, and that under a colour of long praying: The same shall receive greater damnation."
Moffatt New Testament
they prey upon the property of widows and offer long unreal prayers. All the heavier will their sentence be!"
Montgomery New Testament
"but they devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. These shall receive severer condemnation."
NET Bible
They devour widows' property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment."
New Heart English Bible
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
Noyes New Testament
who devour widows houses, and for a pretence make long prayers. These will receive a far greater condemnation.
Sawyer New Testament
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers; they shall receive a greater judgment.
The Emphasized Bible
Who devour the houses of widows, and, for a show, are a long time at prayer. These, shall receive, a heavier sentence.
Thomas Haweis New Testament
who devour the houses of widows, and for a pretext make long prayers: these shall receive a more abundant punishment.
Twentieth Century New Testament
These are the men who rob widows of their houses, and make a pretense of saying long prayers. Their sentence will be all the heavier."
Webster
Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.
Weymouth New Testament
who swallow up the property of widows and mask their wickedness by making long prayers. They will be punished far more severely than others."
Williams New Testament
men who eat up widows' houses and to cover it up make long prayers! They will receive a much heavier sentence."
World English Bible
who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation."
Worrell New Testament
who devour the houses of widows; and, for a pretense, make long prayers. These shall receive greater condemnation."
Worsley New Testament
who devour widows houses, and for a shew of religion make long prayers: these shall receive a heavier sentence.
Youngs Literal Translation
who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'
Themes
Jesus Christ » History of » Exposes the hypocrisies of the scribes and pharisees (in jerusalem)
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Word Count of 36 Translations in Luke 20:47
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Context Readings
Warning To Beware Of The Scribes
46
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Mark 12:40
[these scribes]
Isaiah 10:2
So as to deprive the needy of justice
And rob the poor of My people of rightful claims,
So that widows may be their spoil
And that they may plunder the fatherless.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
if you do not oppress the transient and the foreigner, the orphan, or the widow, and do not shed innocent blood [by oppression and by unjust judicial murders] in Jerusalem, nor follow after other gods to your own ruin,
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have treated father and mother lightly. They have oppressed the stranger among you; and in your presence they have wronged the fatherless and the widow.
Ezekiel 33:31
They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not practice them; for with their mouth they express loving devotion, but their heart goes after their (unlawful) gain.
Amos 2:7
“These who pant after (long to see) the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless [as sign of their grief and distress]
Also turn aside the way of the humble;
And a man and his father will go to the same
So that My holy name is profaned.
Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample down the needy, and do away with the poor of the land,
Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them,
And houses, and take them away.
They oppress and rob a man and his house,
A man and his inheritance.
Micah 2:8
“But lately My people have stood up as an enemy [and have made Me their antagonist].
You strip the ornaments off the garment
Of those unsuspecting passers-by,
Like those returned from war.
Micah 3:2
“You who hate good and love evil,
Who tear the skin off my people
And their flesh from their bones;
Matthew 11:22-24
Matthew 23:13
Matthew 23:26-28
Luke 10:12-14
Luke 12:1
In the meantime, after so many thousands of the people had gathered that they were stepping on one another, Jesus began speaking first of all to His disciples,
Luke 12:47-48
1 Thessalonians 2:5
For as you well know, we never came with words of flattery nor with a pretext for greed—God is our witness—
2 Timothy 3:2-6
For people will be lovers of self [narcissistic, self-focused], lovers of money [impelled by greed], boastful, arrogant, revilers, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy and profane,
Titus 1:16
They profess to know God [to recognize and be acquainted with Him], but by their actions they deny and disown Him. They are detestable and disobedient and worthless for good work of any kind.
James 3:1
Not many [of you] should become teachers [serving in an official teaching capacity], my brothers and sisters, for you know that we [who are teachers] will