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Mark 12:40
They devour widows’ houses and say long prayers just for show. These will receive harsher judgment.”
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James 3:1
Not many should become teachers, my brothers, because you know that we will receive a stricter judgment.
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Titus 1:16
They claim to know God, but they deny him by their works. They are detestable, disobedient, and unfit for any good work.
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Luke 12:1
Meanwhile, a crowd of many thousands came together, so that they were trampling on one another. He began to say to his disciples first,“ Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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Luke 12:47-48
And that servant who knew his master’s will and didn’t prepare himself or do it will be severely beaten.But the one who did not know and did what deserved punishment will receive a light beating. From everyone who has been given much, much will be required; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, even more will be expected.
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Jeremiah 7:6-10
if you no longer oppress the resident alien, the fatherless, and the widow and no longer shed innocent blood in this place or follow other gods, bringing harm on yourselves,I will allow you to live in this place, the land I gave to your ancestors long ago and forever.But look, you keep trusting in deceitful words that cannot help.“‘ Do you steal, murder, commit adultery, swear falsely, burn incense to Baal, and follow other gods that you have not known?Then do you come and stand before me in this house that bears my name and say,“ We are rescued, so we can continue doing all these detestable acts”?
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Micah 2:8
But recently my people have risen up like an enemy: You strip off the splendid robe from those who are passing through confidently, like those returning from war.
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Luke 10:12-14
I tell you, on that day it will be more tolerable for Sodom than for that town.“ Woe to you, Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth and ashes.But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.
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Amos 8:4-6
Hear this, you who trample on the needy and do away with the poor of the land,asking,“ When will the New Moon be over so we may sell grain, and the Sabbath, so we may market wheat? We can reduce the measure while increasing the price and cheat with dishonest scales.We can buy the poor with silver and the needy for a pair of sandals and even sell the chaff!”
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Amos 2:7
They trample the heads of the poor on the dust of the ground and obstruct the path of the needy. A man and his father have sexual relations with the same girl, profaning my holy name.
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Ezekiel 33:31
So my people come to you in crowds, sit in front of you, and hear your words, but they don’t obey them. Their mouths go on passionately, but their hearts pursue dishonest profit.
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Isaiah 10:2
to keep the poor from getting a fair trial and to deprive the needy among my people of justice, so that widows can be their spoil and they can plunder the fatherless.
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Micah 3:2
You hate good and love evil. You tear off people’s skin and strip their flesh from their bones.
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Matthew 23:13
“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. For you don’t go in, and you don’t allow those entering to go in.
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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.And you, Capernaum, will you be exalted to heaven? No, you will go down to Hades. For if the miracles that were done in you had been done in Sodom, it would have remained until today.But I tell you, it will be more tolerable for the land of Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”
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2 Timothy 3 2-2 Timothy 3 6
For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, boastful, proud, demeaning, disobedient to parents, ungrateful, unholy,unloving, irreconcilable, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, without love for what is good,traitors, reckless, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,holding to the form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people.For among them are those who worm their way into households and deceive gullible women overwhelmed by sins and led astray by a variety of passions,
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Matthew 23:26-28
Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside of it may also become clean.“ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of the bones of the dead and every kind of impurity.In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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Ezekiel 22:7
Father and mother are treated with contempt, and the resident alien is exploited within you. The fatherless and widow are oppressed in you.
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Micah 2:2
They covet fields and seize them; they also take houses. They deprive a man of his home, a person of his inheritance.
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1 Thessalonians 2 5
For we never used flattering speech, as you know, or had greedy motives— God is our witness—
