to thrust aside the needy from judgment, and to rob the right from the poor of My people, that widows may be their prey, and that they may plunder the orphans!

if you do not oppress the sojourner, the fatherless, and the widow, and do not shed innocent blood in this place, nor walk after other gods to your hurt;

Behold, you trust in lying words that are of no benefit.

and then come and stand before Me in this house which is called by My name, and say, We are delivered to do all those abominations?

In you they have made light of father and mother; in your midst they have oppressed the sojourner; in you they have mistreated the orphan and the widow.

They pant after the dust of the earth on the head of the helpless, and thrust aside the way of the afflicted. And a man and his father go in to the same girl, in order to profane My holy name.

Hear this, you who swallow up the needy, and make the poor of the land to fail,

in order to buy the poor with silver, and the needy for a pair of sandals, and sell the refuse of the wheat?

And they covet and seize fields and houses, and carry them away. And they oppress a man and his household, even a man and his inheritance.

Even recently My people have risen up like an enemy. You strip off an inner robe before an outer garment, from those who pass by securely, as those returning from war.

You who hate good and love evil, who tear their skin off them, and their flesh from off their bones;

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. Therefore you will receive more abundant condemnation.

who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive surpassing condemnation.

For of this sort are those who creep into households and make captives of gullible women loaded down with sins, led away by various lusts,

In the meantime, when an innumerable multitude of people had gathered together, so that they trampled one another, He began to say to His disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

So they come to you as people do, they sit before you as My people, and they hear your words, but they do not do them; for with their mouth they act out love, but their hearts go after their unjust gain.

Blind Pharisee, first cleanse the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

For neither at any time did we use flattering words, as you know, nor in pretense of covetousness; God is witness.

For men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,

traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God,

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.

But I say to you that it will be more tolerable in that Day for Sodom than for that city.

But it will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

And that servant who knew his master's will, and did not prepare himself or do according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.

But he who did not know, yet committed things deserving of stripes, shall be beaten with few. For everyone to whom much is given, from him much will be required; and to whom much has been committed, of him they will ask the more.

But I say to you, It will be more tolerable for Tyre and Sidon in the day of judgment than for you.

But I say to you that it shall be more tolerable for the land of Sodom in the day of judgment than for you.

My brethren, let not many of you become teachers, knowing that we shall receive a stricter judgment.