⁴⁷ They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

⁴⁰ They devour widows’ houses and for a show make lengthy prayers. These men will be punished most severely.”

Taming the Tongue

3 Not many of you should become teachers,^(A) my fellow believers, because you know that we who teach will be judged^(B) more strictly.^(C)

¹⁶ They claim to know God, but by their actions they deny him.^(A) They are detestable, disobedient and unfit for doing anything good.^(B)

⁴⁷ “The servant who knows the master’s will and does not get ready or does not do what the master wants will be beaten with many blows.^{(A) 48} But the one who does not know and does things deserving punishment will be beaten with few blows.^(B) From everyone who has been given much, much will be demanded; and from the one who has been entrusted with much, much more will be asked.

Warnings and Encouragements^(A)

12 Meanwhile, when a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples, saying: “Be^[a] on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.^(B)

¹² I tell you, it will be more bearable on that day for Sodom^(A) than for that town.^(B)

¹³ “Woe to you,^(C) Chorazin! Woe to you, Bethsaida! For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Tyre and Sidon, they would have repented long ago, sitting in sackcloth^(D) and ashes. ¹⁴ But it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon at the judgment than for you.

Seven Woes on the Teachers of the Law and the Pharisees

¹³ “Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites!^(A) You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.^(B)

²² But I tell you, it will be more bearable for Tyre and Sidon on the day of judgment than for you.^{(A) 23} And you, Capernaum,^(B) will you be lifted to the heavens? No, you will go down to Hades.^[a](C) For if the miracles that were performed in you had been performed in Sodom, it would have remained to this day. ²⁴ But I tell you that it will be more bearable for Sodom on the day of judgment than for you.”^(D)