13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel nor spirit; the Pharisees affirm them all.

"The Scribes and Pharisees sit in Moses' seat;

At that time the disciples of John came and asked him, "Why are we and the Pharisees always fasting, while your disciples are not?"

Now the disciples of John and the Pharisees were keeping a fast, and people came to ask him, "How is it that the disciples of John and the Pharisees are fasting, but your disciples are not?"

Now the Pharisees who loved money listened to all this and they jeered at him.

For the Pharisees and all of the Jews do not eat until they have ceremoniously washed their hands in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

And the Pharisee noticed, to his amazement, that he did not wash his hands before eating,

but the Lord said to him. "You Pharisee do cleanse the outside of your cup or plate, but your secret heart is full of extortion and wickedness.

Meanwhile when myriads of the multitudes were thronging around him so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to his disciples, first of all. "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisee, which is hypocrisy.

"For I assure you that unless your righteousness exceed that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will not find entrance into the kingdom of heaven.

"Two men are going up to the temple to pray; the one a Pharisee, the other a tax-gatherer.

"The Pharisee stood apart and thus began to pray by himself. "'O God, I thank thee that I am not like the rest of men, extortioners, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax gatherer; "'I fast twice a week, I pay tithes of all my possessions.'

but the Pharisees and lawyers who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.