Matthew 23:14

Wo to you, scribis and Farisees, ipocritis, that eten the housis of widowis, and preien bi longe preier; for this thing ye schulen take more doom.

Bible (Wycliffe)

In The 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.

In Context

13But wo to you, scribis and Farisees, ipocritis, that closen the kyngdom of heuenes bifore men; and ye entren not, nether suffren men entrynge to entre.

15Wo to you, scribis and Farisees, ypocritis, that goon aboute the see and the loond, to make o prosilite; and whanne he is maad, ye maken hym a sone of helle, double more than ye ben.

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Cross References

Exodus 22:22Ye schulen not anoye a widewe, and a fadirles ethir modirles child.

Job 31:16If Y denyede to pore men that, that thei wolden, and if Y made the iyen of a wydewe to abide;

Matthew 23:33Ye eddris, and eddris briddis, hou schulen ye fle fro the doom of helle?

Luke 12:48But he that knew not, and dide worthi thingis of strokis, schal be betun with fewe. For to eche man to whom myche is youun, myche schal be axid of hym; and thei schulen axe more of hym, to whom thei bitoken myche.

James 3:1Mi britheren, nyle ye be maad many maistris, witynge that ye taken the more doom.

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