Bible Cross References
devour
Isaiah 10:2
That is how you keep the poor from having their rights and from getting justice. That is how you take the property that belongs to widows and orphans.
Jeremiah 7:6-10
6
Stop taking advantage of aliens, orphans, and widows. Stop killing innocent people in this land. Stop worshiping other gods, for that will destroy you.
7
If you change, I will let you go on living here in the land which I gave your ancestors as a permanent possession.
8
"Look, you put your trust in deceitful words.
9
You steal, murder, commit adultery, tell lies under oath, offer sacrifices to Baal, and worship gods that you had not known before.
10
You do these things I hate, and then you come and stand in my presence, in my own Temple, and say, 'We are safe!'
Ezekiel 22:7
None of you in the city honor your parents. You cheat foreigners and take advantage of widows and orphans.
Amos 2:7
They trample down the weak and helpless and push the poor out of the way. A man and his father have intercourse with the same slave woman, and so profane my holy name.
Amos 8:4-6
4
Listen to this, you that trample on the needy and try to destroy the poor of the country.
5
You say to yourselves, "We can hardly wait for the holy days to be over so that we can sell our grain. When will the Sabbath end, so that we can start selling again? Then we can overcharge, use false measures, and fix the scales to cheat our customers.
6
We can sell worthless wheat at a high price. We'll find someone poor who can't pay his debts, not even the price of a pair of sandals, and we'll buy him as a slave."
Micah 2:2
When they want fields, they seize them; when they want houses, they take them. No one's family or property is safe.
Micah 2:8
The LORD replies, "You attack my people like enemies. Men return from battle, thinking they are safe at home, but there you are, waiting to steal the coats off their backs.
Micah 3:2
yet you hate what is good and you love what is evil. You skin my people alive and tear the flesh off their bones.
Matthew 23:14
Mark 12:40
They take advantage of widows and rob them of their homes, and then make a show of saying long prayers. Their punishment will be all the worse!"
2 Timothy 3:6
Some of them go into people's houses and gain control over weak women who are burdened by the guilt of their sins and driven by all kinds of desires,
for
Luke 12:1
As thousands of people crowded together, so that they were stepping on each other, Jesus said first to his disciples, "Be on guard against the yeast of the Pharisees---I mean their hypocrisy.
Ezekiel 33:31
So my people crowd in to hear what you have to say, but they don't do what you tell them to do. Loving words are on their lips, but they continue their greedy ways.
Matthew 23:26-28
26
Blind Pharisee! Clean what is inside the cup first, and then the outside will be clean too!
27
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.
28
In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.
1 Thessalonians 2:5
You know very well that we did not come to you with flattering talk, nor did we use words to cover up greed---God is our witness!
2 Timothy 3:2-5
2
People will be selfish, greedy, boastful, and conceited; they will be insulting, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, and irreligious;
3
they will be unkind, merciless, slanderers, violent, and fierce; they will hate the good;
4
they will be treacherous, reckless, and swollen with pride; they will love pleasure rather than God;
5
they will hold to the outward form of our religion, but reject its real power. Keep away from such people.
Titus 1:16
They claim that they know God, but their actions deny it. They are hateful and disobedient, not fit to do anything good.
the same
Luke 10:12-14
12
I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to that town!
13
"How terrible it will be for you, Chorazin! How terrible for you too, Bethsaida! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, the people there would have long ago sat down, put on sackcloth, and sprinkled ashes on themselves, to show that they had turned from their sins!
14
God will show more mercy on the Judgment Day to Tyre and Sidon than to you.
Luke 12:47
"The servant who knows what his master wants him to do, but does not get himself ready and do it, will be punished with a heavy whipping.
Luke 12:48
But the servant who does not know what his master wants, and yet does something for which he deserves a whipping, will be punished with a light whipping. Much is required from the person to whom much is given; much more is required from the person to whom much more is given.
Matthew 11:22-24
22
I assure you that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to the people of Tyre and Sidon than to you!
23
And as for you, Capernaum! Did you want to lift yourself up to heaven? You will be thrown down to hell! If the miracles which were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would still be in existence today!
24
You can be sure that on the Judgment Day God will show more mercy to Sodom than to you!"
James 3:1
My friends, not many of you should become teachers. As you know, we teachers will be judged with greater strictness than others.