Matthew 23:14

14 7Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! kFor you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

Matthew 23:14 — The New International Version (NIV)

Matthew 23:14 — King James Version (KJV 1900)

14 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 — New Living Translation (NLT)

Matthew 23:14 — New Century Version (NCV)

14 How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees. You are hypocrites. You take away widows’ houses, and you say long prayers so that people will notice you. So you will have a worse punishment.

Matthew 23:14 — American Standard Version (ASV)

14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows’ houses, even while for a pretence ye make long prayers: therefore ye shall receive greater condemnation.

Matthew 23:14 — 1890 Darby Bible (DARBY)

Matthew 23:14 — GOD’S WORD Translation (GW)

Matthew 23:14 — The Holman Christian Standard Bible (HCSB)

14 [“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You devour widows’ houses and make long prayers just for show. This is why you will receive a harsher punishment.]

Matthew 23:14 — New International Reader’s Version (1998) (NIrV)

13 “How terrible it will be for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You pretenders! You shut the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter. And you will not let those enter who are trying to.

Matthew 23:14 — New American Standard Bible: 1995 Update (NASB95)

14 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you devour widows’ houses, and for a pretense you make long prayers; therefore you will receive greater condemnation.

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