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Matthew 23:14 KJV
Matthew · chapter 23 · verse 14 · King James Version
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.Matthew 23:14 · King James Version
Matthew 23:14 in context
12And whosoever shall exalt himself shall be abased; and he that shall humble himself shall be exalted.
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.
14Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
16Woe unto you, ye blind guides, which say, Whosoever shall swear by the temple, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gold of the temple, he is a debtor!
Key words (Strong's)
- hypocriteshypokritēsone who answers, an interpreter, an actor, stage player, a dissembler, pretender…G5273 →
- PhariseespharisaiosA sect that seems to have started after the Jewish exile. In addition to OT books the…G5330 →
- pretenceprophasisa pretext , show, under colour as though they would do something, in pretence, ostensiblyG4392 →
- scribesgrammateusa clerk, scribe, esp.a public servant, secretary, recorder, whose office and influence…G1122 →
- widows'chēraa widow, metaph. a city stripped of its inhabitants and riches is represented under the…G5503 →
- devourkatesthiōto consume by eating, to eat up, devour, of birds, of a dragon, of a man eating up the…G2719 →
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