Luke 20:47
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
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Luke 20:47
Who take the property of widows and before the eyes of men make long prayers; they will get a greater punishment.
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Genesis 34:13
But the sons of Jacob gave a false answer to Shechem and Hamor his father, because of what had been done to Dinah their sister.
Genesis 34:14
And they said, It is not possible for us to give our sister to one who is without circumcision, for that would be a cause of shame to us:
Genesis 34:15
But on this condition only will we come to an agreement with you: if every male among you becomes like us and undergoes circumcision;
Genesis 34:16
Then we will give our daughters to you and take your daughters to us and go on living with you as one people.
Genesis 34:17
But if you will not undergo circumcision as we say, then we will take our daughter and go.
Matthew 2:8
And he sent them to Beth-lehem and said, Go and make certain where the young child is; and when you have seen him, let me have news of it, so that I may come and give him worship.
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Exodus 22:22
Do no wrong to a widow, or to a child whose father is dead.
Exodus 22:23
If you are cruel to them in any way, and their cry comes up to me, I will certainly give ear;
Exodus 22:24
And in the heat of my wrath I will put you to death with the sword, so that your wives will be widows and your children without fathers.
Job 22:9
You have sent widows away without hearing their cause, and you have taken away the support of the child who has no father.
Job 31:16
If I kept back the desire of the poor; if the widow's eye was looking for help to no purpose;
Job 31:17
If I kept my food for myself, and did not give some of it to the child with no father;
Job 31:18
(For I was cared for by God as by a father from my earliest days; he was my guide from the body of my mother;)
Job 31:19
If I saw one near to death for need of clothing, and that the poor had nothing covering him;
Job 31:20
If his back did not give me a blessing, and the wool of my sheep did not make him warm;
Luke 16:9
And I say to you, Make friends for yourselves through the wealth of this life, so that when it comes to an end, you may be taken into the eternal resting-places.
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1 Kings 18:21
And Elijah came near to all the people and said, How long will you go on balancing between two opinions? if the Lord is God, then give worship to him; but if Baal, give worship to him. And the people said not a word in answer.
Psalms 94:8
Give your mind to my words, you who are without wisdom among the people; you foolish men, when will you be wise?
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1 Kings 21:10
And get two good-for-nothing persons to come before him and give witness that he has been cursing God and the king. Then take him out and have him stoned to death.
1 Kings 21:11
So the responsible men and the chiefs who were in authority in his town, did as Jezebel had said in the letter she sent them.
1 Kings 21:12
They gave orders for a day of public sorrow, and put Naboth at the head of the people.
1 Kings 21:13
And the two good-for-nothing persons came in and took their seats before him and gave witness against Naboth, in front of the people, saying, Naboth has been cursing God and the king. Then they took him outside the town and had him stoned to death.
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Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the sinner when he is cut off, when God takes back his soul?
Job 27:9
Will his cry come to the ears of God when he is in trouble?
Job 27:10
Will he take delight in the Ruler of all, and make his prayer to God at all times?
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Psalms 49:1
Alamoth. To the chief music-maker. Of the sons of Korah. A Psalm. Give attention to this, all you peoples; let your ears be open, all you who are living in the world.
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Psalms 49:2
High and low together, the poor, and those who have wealth.
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Isaiah 10:2
Who do wrong to the poor in their cause, and take away the right of the crushed among my people, so that they may have the property of widows, and get under their power those who have no father.
Isaiah 56:11
Yes, the dogs are for ever looking for food; while these, the keepers of the sheep, are without wisdom: they have all gone after their pleasure, every one looking for profit; they are all the same.
Jeremiah 2:30
I gave your children blows to no purpose; they got no good from training: your sword has been the destruction of your prophets, like a death-giving lion.
Jeremiah 6:13
For from the least of them even to the greatest, everyone is given up to getting money; from the prophet even to the priest, everyone is working deceit.
Ezekiel 22:7
In you they have had no respect for father and mother; in you they have been cruel to the man from a strange land; in you they have done wrong to the child without a father and to the widow.
Matthew 6:23
But if your eye is evil, all your body will be dark. If then the light which is in you is dark, how dark it will be!
Matthew 23:25
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.
Luke 12:15
And he said to them, Take care to keep yourselves free from the desire for property; for a man's life is not made up of the number of things which he has.
Romans 13:12
The night is far gone, and the day is near: so let us put off the works of the dark, arming ourselves with light,
Titus 1:10
For there are men who are not ruled by law; foolish talkers, false teachers, specially those of the circumcision,
2 Peter 2:14
Having eyes full of evil desire, never having enough of sin; turning feeble souls out of the true way; they are children of cursing, whose hearts are well used to bitter envy;
2 Peter 2:15
Turning out of the true way, they have gone wandering in error, after the way of Balaam, the son of Beor, who was pleased to take payment for wrongdoing;
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Jeremiah 7:6
If you are not cruel to the man from a strange country, and to the child without a father, and to the widow, and do not put the upright to death in this place, or go after other gods, causing damage to yourselves:
Jeremiah 7:7
Then I will let you go on living in this place, in the land which I gave to your fathers in the past and for ever.
Jeremiah 7:8
See, you put your faith in false words which are of no profit.
Jeremiah 7:9
Will you take the goods of others, put men to death, and be untrue to your wives, and take false oaths, and have perfumes burned to the Baal, and go after other gods which are strange to you;
Jeremiah 7:10
And come and take your place before me in this house, which is named by my name, and say, We have been made safe; so that you may do all these disgusting things?
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Jeremiah 2:34
And in the skirts of your robe may be seen the life-blood of those who have done no wrong: ...
Jeremiah 8:10
So I will give their wives to others, and their fields to those who will take them for themselves: for everyone, from the least to the greatest, is given up to getting money; from the priest even to the prophet, everyone is false.
Ezekiel 13:19
And you have put me to shame among my people for a little barley and some bits of bread, sending death on souls for whom there is no cause of death, and keeping those souls living who have no right to life, by the false words you say to my people who give ear to what is false.
Matthew 23:16
A curse is on you, blind guides, who say, Whoever takes an oath by the Temple, it is nothing; but whoever takes an oath by the gold of the Temple, he is responsible.
2 Corinthians 11:20
You put up with a man if he makes servants of you, if he makes profit out of you, if he makes you prisoners, if he puts himself in a high place, if he gives you blows on the face.
Revelation 17:6
And I saw the woman overcome as with the wine of the blood of the saints, and the blood of those put to death because of Jesus. And when I saw her, I was overcome with a great wonder.
Revelation 18:13
And sweet-smelling plants, and perfumes, and wine, and oil, and well crushed grain, and cattle and sheep; and horses and carriages and servants; and souls of men.
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Proverbs 21:27
The offering of evil-doers is disgusting: how much more when they give it with an evil purpose!
Proverbs 28:9
As for the man whose ear is turned away from hearing the law, even his prayer is disgusting.
Ezekiel 22:26
Her priests have been acting violently against my law; they have made my holy things unclean: they have made no division between what is holy and what is common, and they have not made it clear that the unclean is different from the clean, and their eyes have been shut to my Sabbaths, and I am not honoured among them.
Ezekiel 22:27
Her rulers in her are like wolves violently taking their food; putting men to death and causing the destruction of souls, so that they may get their profit.
Ezekiel 22:28
And her prophets have been using whitewash, seeing foolish visions and making false use of secret arts, saying, This is what the Lord has said, when the Lord has said nothing.
Ezekiel 22:29
The people of the land have been acting cruelly, taking men's goods by force; they have been hard on the poor and those in need, and have done wrong to the man from a strange land.
Amos 2:7
Crushing the head of the poor, and turning the steps of the gentle out of the way: and a man and his father go in to the same young woman, putting shame on my holy name:
Amos 8:4
Give ear to this, you who are crushing the poor, and whose purpose is to put an end to those who are in need in the land,
Amos 8:5
Saying, When will the new moon be gone, so that we may do trade in grain? and the Sabbath, so that we may put out in the market the produce of our fields? making the measure small and the price great, and trading falsely with scales of deceit;
Amos 8:6
Getting the poor for silver, and him who is in need for the price of two shoes, and taking a price for the waste parts of the grain.
Micah 2:8
As for you, you have become haters of those who were at peace with you: you take the clothing of those who go by without fear, and make them prisoners of war.
Micah 2:9
The women of my people you have been driving away from their dearly loved children; from their young ones you are taking my glory for ever.
Micah 3:1
And I said, Give ear, now, you heads of Jacob and rulers of the people of Israel: is it not for you to have knowledge of what is right?
Micah 3:3
Like meat they take the flesh of my people for their food, skinning them and crushing their bones, yes, cutting them up as if for the pot, like flesh inside the cooking-pot.
Micah 3:4
Then they will be crying to the Lord for help, but he will not give them an answer: yes, he will keep his face veiled from them at that time, because their acts have been evil.
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Jeremiah 28:15
Then the prophet Jeremiah said to Hananiah the prophet, Give ear, now, Hananiah; the Lord has not sent you; but you are making this people put their faith in what is false.
Jeremiah 28:16
For this reason the Lord has said, See, I will send you away from off the face of the earth: this year death will overtake you, because you have said words against the Lord.
Jeremiah 29:20
And now, give ear to the word of the Lord, all you whom I have sent away prisoners from Jerusalem to Babylon.
Jeremiah 29:21
This is what the Lord of armies, the God of Israel, has said about Ahab, the son of Kolaiah, and about Zedekiah, the son of Maaseiah, who are saying to you what is false in my name: See, I will give them up into the hands of Nebuchadrezzar, king of Babylon, and he will put them to death before your eyes.
Jeremiah 29:22
And their fate will be used as a curse by all the prisoners of Judah who are in Babylon, who will say, May the Lord make you like Zedekiah and like Ahab, who were burned in the fire by the king of Babylon;
Jeremiah 29:31
Send to all those who have been taken away, saying, This is what the Lord has said about Shemaiah the Nehelamite: Because Shemaiah has been acting as a prophet to you, and I did not send him, and has made you put your faith in what is false;
Jeremiah 29:32
For this cause the Lord has said, Truly I will send punishment on Shemaiah and on his seed; not a man of his family will have a place among this people, and he will not see the good which I am going to do to my people, says the Lord: because he has said words against the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:12
And when the wall has come down, will they not say to you, Where is the whitewash which you put on it?
Ezekiel 13:13
For this reason, the Lord has said: I will have it broken in two by a storm-wind in my passion; and there will be an overflowing shower in my wrath, and you, O ice-drops, will come raining angrily down.
Ezekiel 13:14
So I will let the wall, which you were covering with whitewash, be broken down; I will have it levelled to the earth so that its base is uncovered: it will come down, and destruction will come on you with it; and it will be clear to you that I am the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:15
So I will let loose my passion on the wall in full measure, and on those who put whitewash on it; and I will say to you, Where is the wall, and where are those who put whitewash on it?
Ezekiel 13:16
Even the prophets of Israel who say words to Jerusalem, who see visions of peace for her when there is no peace, says the Lord.
Ezekiel 13:21
And I will have your veils violently parted in two, and will make my people free from your hands, and they will no longer be in your power for you to go after them; and you will be certain that I am the Lord.
Malachi 2:9
And so I have taken away your honour and made you low before all the people, even as you have not kept my ways, and have given no thought to me in using the law.
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Matthew 3:7
But when he saw a number of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, Offspring of snakes, at whose word are you going in flight from the wrath to come?
Matthew 3:8
Let your change of heart be seen in your works:
Matthew 3:9
And say not to yourselves, We have Abraham for our father; because I say to you that God is able from these stones to make children for Abraham.
Matthew 3:10
And even now the axe is put to the root of the trees; every tree then which does not give good fruit is cut down, and put into the fire.
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Matthew 22:14
For out of all to whom the good news has come, only a small number will get salvation.
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Matthew 10:17
But be on the watch against men: for they will give you up to the Sanhedrins, and in their Synagogues they will give you blows;
Matthew 23:2
The scribes and the Pharisees have the authority of Moses;
Matthew 23:3
All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.
Matthew 23:4
They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.
Romans 13:5
So put yourselves under the authority, not for fear of wrath, but because you have the knowledge of what is right.
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Matthew 23:6
And the things desired by them are the first places at feasts, and the chief seats in the Synagogues,
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Matthew 23:7
And words of respect in the market-places, and to be named by men, Teacher.
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Mark 7:11
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,
Mark 7:12
You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;
Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.
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Luke 2:37
She had been a widow for eighty-four years); she was in the Temple at all times, worshipping with prayers and going without food, night and day.
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Luke 2:38
And coming up at that time, she gave praise to God, talking of him to all those who were waiting for the freeing of Jerusalem.
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Luke 4:25
Truly I say to you, There were a number of widows in Israel in the days of Elijah, when the heaven was shut up for three years and six months and there was no food in the land;
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Luke 4:26
But Elijah was not sent to one of them, but only to Zarephath, in the land of Sidon, to a woman who was a widow.
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Matthew 6:6
But when you make your prayer, go into your private room, and, shutting the door, say a prayer to your Father in secret, and your Father, who sees in secret, will give you your reward.
Luke 5:33
And they said to him, The disciples of John frequently go without food, and make prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees; but your disciples take food and drink.
Luke 11:1
And it came about that he was in prayer in a certain place, and when he came to an end, one of his disciples said to him, Lord, will you give us teaching about prayer, as John did to his disciples?
Acts 9:11
And the Lord said to him, Get up, and go to the street which is named Straight, and make search at the house of Judas for one named Saul of Tarsus: for he is at prayer;
Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.
Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.
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Matthew 11:23
And you, Capernaum, were you not to be lifted up to heaven? you will go down into hell: for if the works of power which were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have been here to this day.
Matthew 11:24
But I say to you that it will be better for the land of Sodom in the day of judging, than for you.
Luke 10:12
I say to you, It will be better in that day for Sodom than for that town.
Luke 10:15
And you, Capernaum, were you not lifted up to heaven? you will go down to hell.
Luke 12:48
But he who, without knowledge, did things for which punishment is given, will get only a small number of blows. The man to whom much is given, will have to give much; if much is given into his care, of him more will be requested.
John 15:22
If I had not come and been their teacher they would have had no sin: but now they have no reason to give for their sin.
Acts 27:30
Then the sailors made attempts secretly to get away from the ship, letting down a boat as if they were about to put down hooks from the front of the ship;
James 4:17
The man who has knowledge of how to do good and does not do it, to him it is sin.
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Luke 12:54
Then he said to the people, When you see a cloud coming up in the west, straight away you say, There will be rain; and so it is.
Luke 12:55
And when you see a south wind blowing, you say, There will be heat; and so it is.
Luke 12:56
O false ones! the face of the earth and the heaven is clear to you; how is it that the signs of these times are not as clear to you?
Luke 12:57
And why are you, in your hearts, unable to be judges of what is right?
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Luke 17:1
And he said to his disciples, It is necessary for causes of trouble to come about, but unhappy is he by whom they come.
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Luke 17:2
It would be well for him if a great stone was put round his neck and he was dropped into the sea, before he made trouble for any of these little ones.
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Proverbs 20:6
Most men make no secret of their kind acts: but where is a man of good faith to be seen?
Isaiah 65:5
Who say, Keep away, do not come near me, for fear that I make you holy: these are a smoke in my nose, a fire burning all day.
Matthew 19:18
He says to him, Which? And Jesus said, Do not put anyone to death, Do not be untrue in married life, Do not take what is not yours, Do not give false witness,
Matthew 19:19
Give honour to your father and your mother: and, Have love for your neighbour as for yourself.
Matthew 19:20
The young man says to him, All these things have I done: what more is there?
Luke 10:29
But he, desiring to put himself in the right, said to Jesus, And who is my neighbour?
Luke 18:10
Two men went up to the Temple for prayer; one a Pharisee, and the other a tax-farmer.
Luke 18:21
And he said, All these things I have done from the time when I was a boy.
Luke 20:20
And they kept watch on him, and sent out secret representatives, who were acting the part of good men, in order that they might get something from his words, on account of which they might give him up to the government and into the power of the ruler.
Romans 2:3
But you who are judging another for doing what you do yourself, are you hoping that God's decision will not take effect against you?
Romans 3:20
Because by the works of the law no man is able to have righteousness in his eyes, for through the law comes the knowledge of sin.
Galatians 3:10
For all who are of the works of the law are under a curse: because it is said in the Writings, A curse is on everyone who does not keep on doing all the things which are ordered in the book of the law.
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Luke 19:47
And every day he was teaching in the Temple. But the chief priests and the scribes and the rulers of the people were attempting to put him to death;
Luke 20:1
And it came about on one of those days, when he was teaching the people in the Temple and preaching the good news,
Luke 21:37
And every day he was teaching in the Temple and every night he went out to the mountain which is named the Mountain of Olives to take his rest.
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Luke 21:27
And then they will see the Son of man coming in a cloud, with power and great glory.
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John 7:18
The man whose words come from himself is looking for glory for himself, but he who is looking for the glory of him who sent him--that man is true and there is no evil in him.
2 Corinthians 10:12
For we will not make comparison of ourselves with some of those who say good things about themselves: but these, measuring themselves by themselves, and making comparison of themselves with themselves, are not wise.
2 Corinthians 11:13
For such men are false Apostles, workers of deceit, making themselves seem like Apostles of Christ.
Galatians 6:12
Those who have the desire to seem important in the flesh, put force on you to undergo circumcision; only that they may not be attacked because of the cross of Christ.
Galatians 6:13
Because even those who undergo circumcision do not themselves keep the law; but they would have you undergo circumcision, so that they may have glory in your flesh.
Philippians 1:15
Though some are preaching Christ out of envy and competition, others do it out of a good heart:
Philippians 2:4
Not looking everyone to his private good, but keeping in mind the things of others.
Colossians 2:23
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.
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Luke 20:27
And some of the Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no coming back from the dead; and they said to him,
Romans 7:7
What then is to be said? is the law sin? in no way. But I would not have had knowledge of sin but for the law: for I would not have been conscious of desire if the law had not said, You may not have a desire for what is another's.
Romans 7:8
But sin, taking its chance through that which was ordered by the law, was working in me every form of desire: because without the law sin is dead.
Galatians 4:31
So, brothers, we are not children of the servant-woman, but of the free woman.
Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.
James 2:9
But if you take a man's position into account, you do evil, and are judged as evil-doers by the law.
James 2:10
For anyone who keeps all the law, but makes a slip in one point, is judged to have gone against it all.
James 2:11
For he who said, Do not be untrue in married life, is the same who said, Put no man to death. Now if you are not untrue in married life, but you put a man to death, the law is broken.
James 2:12
Let your words and your acts be those of men who are to be judged by the law which makes free.
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2 Timothy 3:2
For men will be lovers of self, lovers of money, uplifted in pride, given to bitter words, going against the authority of their fathers, never giving praise, having no religion,
2 Timothy 3:3
Without natural love, bitter haters, saying evil of others, violent and uncontrolled, hating all good,
2 Timothy 3:4
False to their friends, acting without thought, lifted up in mind, loving pleasure more than God;
2 Timothy 3:5
Having a form of religion, but turning their backs on the power of it: go not with these.
Titus 1:16
They say that they have knowledge of God, while by their acts they are turning their backs on him; they are hated by all, hard-hearted, and judged to be without value for any good work.
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James 2:21
Was not the righteousness of Abraham our father judged by his works, when he made an offering of Isaac his son on the altar?
James 2:22
You see that his faith was helping his works and was made complete by them;
James 2:23
And the holy Writings were put into effect which said, And Abraham had faith in God and it was put to his account as righteousness; and he was named the friend of God.
James 2:24
You see that a man's righteousness is judged by his works and not by his faith only.
James 2:25
And in the same way, was not the righteousness of Rahab, the loose woman, judged by her works, when she took into her house those who were sent and let them go out by another way?
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