Thematic Bible: Hypocrisy, an ever present element in false religion


Thematic Bible



But the Lord answered him and said, “You hypocrites, does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from the stall and lead him away to water him?

Now he said this, not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief, and as he had the money box, he used to pilfer what was put into it.



You hypocrites! You know how to analyze the appearance of the earth and the sky, but why do you not analyze this present time?

and will cut him in pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites; in that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because you shut off the kingdom of heaven from people; for you do not enter in yourselves, nor do you allow those who are entering to go in.


Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother’s eye.


Under these circumstances, after so many thousands of people had gathered together that they were stepping on one another, He began saying to His disciples first of all, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.




For as he thinks within himself, so he is.
He says to you, “Eat and drink!”
But his heart is not with you.

When he speaks graciously, do not believe him,
For there are seven abominations in his heart.