Sentences with phrase «devoured widows»

Jesus spoke woe unto those is his day who devoured widows houses.

[47] They devour widows» houses and for a show make lengthy prayers.

In highlighting their greed, Jesus says that they «devour widows» houses» (Mark 12:40).

Right before the story of the widow mites, Jesus rebukes the Pharisees for devouring widows houses.

For ye devour widows» houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore, ye shall receive the greater damnation.

He predicted condemnation for men who like to «go about in long robes, and to have salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows» houses and for a pretense make long prayers.»

Jesus is not too concerned about their wealth (except that maybe some of them had gained their riches through devouring widow's houses), nor even with how much they are giving to the temple.

On the contrary, his most stinging words are directed toward those who «preach, but do not practice»; to those who «bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger»; to those who «devour widows» houses and for a pretense... make long prayers»; to those who are «blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel» (Matt.

for ye devour widows» houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.»

«Devouring widows» houses» probably refers to some form of financial gain based on spiritual influence over pious women, perhaps involving persuasion of the ladies to turn over property to the clergy.

He is saddened by a system that devours widow's houses.

Jesus chose to stand in that line, criticizing the scribes who «devour widows» houses and for the sake of appearance say long prayers» (Mark 12:40; Luke 20:47; cf. Isa.

Woe to religious hypocrites «who devour widows» houses and for a pretense make long prayers» (Mark 12:38 - 40).

Not exact matches

Jesus called out the religious leaders of his time and said that they would not enter the kingdom of heaven because they lived in palaces on hills while they devoured the houses of widows (in Luke).

This is how they «devoured the estates of widows.»

We like to have the best seats wherever we go, and we do devour the houses of widows — especially if they are rich, and in a mood to name our church in their will.

Black widow spiders and their Australian cousins, known as redbacks, are infamous for their tainted love as they have an unsettling tendency to kill and devour their male partners.

Created in 1974 when Bourgeois was a widow in her sixties, it represents a family dinner table, at which the gloating patriarch is being devoured by his tyrannised children.