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Matthew 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.
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Luke 20:47
who devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: these will receive greater condemnation.”
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Matthew 23:33
You serpents, you offspring of vipers, how will you escape the judgment of Gehenna?
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Matthew 6:7
In praying, don’t use vain repetitions, as the Gentiles do; for they think that they will be heard for their much speaking.
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Ezekiel 22:25
There is a conspiracy of her prophets within it, like a roaring lion ravening the prey. They have devoured souls. They take treasure and precious things. They have made many widows within it.
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Micah 3:1-4
I said,“ Please listen, you heads of Jacob, and rulers of the house of Israel: Isn’t it for you to know justice?You who hate the good, and love the evil; who tear off their skin, and their flesh from off their bones;who also eat the flesh of my people, and peel their skin from off them, and break their bones, and chop them in pieces, as for the pot, and as meat within the cauldron.Then they will cry to Yahweh, but he will not answer them. Yes, he will hide his face from them at that time, because they made their deeds evil.”
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2 Timothy 3 6
For some of these are people who creep into houses and take captive gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,
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Luke 12:47-48
That servant, who knew his lord’s will, and didn’t prepare, nor do what he wanted, will be beaten with many stripes,but he who didn’t know, and did things worthy of stripes, will be beaten with few stripes. To whomever much is given, of him will much be required; and to whom much was entrusted, of him more will be asked.
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Matthew 11:22-24
But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.You, Capernaum, who are exalted to heaven, you will go down to Hades. For if the mighty works had been done in Sodom which were done in you, it would have remained until today.But I tell you that it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom, on the day of judgment, than for you.”
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Micah 2:2
They 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.