KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Matthew 23:14–15
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Matthew 23:14
14Woe 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.
14*Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; for yee deuoure widowes houses, and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore ye shall receiue the greater damnation.
- Mar. 12.40. luk.20.47.
Matthew 23:15
15Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
15Woe vnto you Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites; for yee compasse Sea and land to make one Proselyte, and when hee is made, yee make him two fold more the childe of hell then your selues.
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DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 23:14
Writers or clerks; among the Jews, persons learned in and teaching the law.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Members of a Jewish sect known for strict observance of its religious traditions.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
hypocrites
Persons who pretend to virtue or godliness while concealing contrary character or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To eat greedily; to consume, destroy, or waste rapidly and completely.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Women whose husbands have died.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · KJV usage (PCE)
Buildings or dwellings; also households, families, dynasties, or divisions descended from a common head.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
To perform, conduct, or carry out the stated action.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Extending a great distance or duration; also to desire earnestly.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To take, accept, admit, welcome, or obtain what is given or presented.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness) · Webster 1828 (independently verified transcription)
Condemnation or adverse judgment; the passage determines the punishment in view.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
DEFINED WORDS
Matthew 23:15
Writers or clerks; among the Jews, persons learned in and teaching the law.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Members of a Jewish sect known for strict observance of its religious traditions.
Meaning drawn from: Bullokar 1616 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
APPROVED COMBINED MEANING
hypocrites
Persons who pretend to virtue or godliness while concealing contrary character or conduct.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To go all round or all over; Circumference, circuit.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893
The ground or earth; a country, territory, or region.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
To form, produce, cause, or carry out what the verse states.
Meaning drawn from: Skeat 1893 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
The number one; a single person or thing; the same or united as a whole.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A person converted from one religion or people to another; in the KJV, a convert to Judaism.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Formed, caused, prepared, appointed, or brought into a stated condition.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
Doubly; in a double degree.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A son or daughter; a young person; a descendant; or one characterized by a stated relation or quality.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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Open the full verse study10And said, O full of all subtilty and all mischief, thou child of the devil, thou enemy of all righteousness, wilt thou not cease to pervert the right ways of the Lord?
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Open the full verse study43Now when the congregation was broken up, many of the Jews and religious proselytes followed Paul and Barnabas: who, speaking to them, persuaded them to continue in the grace of God.
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Open the full verse study3Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
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Open the full verse study2But the unbelieving Jews stirred up the Gentiles, and made their minds evil affected against the brethren.
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Open the full verse study17They zealously affect you, but not well; yea, they would exclude you, that ye might affect them.
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Open the full verse study12As many as desire to make a fair shew in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised; only lest they should suffer persecution for the cross of Christ.
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Open the full verse study44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it.
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Open the full verse study5¶ But the Jews which believed not, moved with envy, took unto them certain lewd fellows of the baser sort, and gathered a company, and set all the city on an uproar, and assaulted the house of Jason, and sought to bring them out to the people.
6And when they found them not, they drew Jason and certain brethren unto the rulers of the city, crying, These that have turned the world upside down are come hither also;
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Open the full verse study22But I say unto you, That whosoever is angry with his brother without a cause shall be in danger of the judgment: and whosoever shall say to his brother, Raca, shall be in danger of the council: but whosoever shall say, Thou fool, shall be in danger of hell fire.
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Open the full verse study13But when the Jews of Thessalonica had knowledge that the word of God was preached of Paul at Berea, they came thither also, and stirred up the people.
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Open the full verse study10Phrygia, and Pamphylia, in Egypt, and in the parts of Libya about Cyrene, and strangers of Rome, Jews and proselytes,
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Open the full verse study17And in every province, and in every city, whithersoever the king’s commandment and his decree came, the Jews had joy and gladness, a feast and a good day. And many of the people of the land became Jews; for the fear of the Jews fell upon them.
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Open the full verse study19¶ And there came thither certain Jews from Antioch and Iconium, who persuaded the people, and, having stoned Paul, drew him out of the city, supposing he had been dead.
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Open the full verse study5¶ And the saying pleased the whole multitude: and they chose Stephen, a man full of faith and of the Holy Ghost, and Philip, and Prochorus, and Nicanor, and Timon, and Parmenas, and Nicolas a proselyte of Antioch:
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Open the full verse study29And if thy right eye offend thee, pluck it out, and cast it from thee: for it is profitable for thee that one of thy members should perish, and not that thy whole body should be cast into hell.
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