13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

For the Sadducees hold that there is no resurrection, and no such thing as an angel or spirit, but the Pharisees believe in all of them.

"The scribes and Pharisees have taken Moses' seat as teachers.

Then John's disciples went up to Him, and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees practice fasting, but your disciples do not?"

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were keeping a fast. So some people came and asked Him, "Why do John's disciples and the Pharisees' disciples practice fasting, but yours never do?"

Now the Pharisees who were lovers of money had been listening to all this, and they began to ridicule Him.

For the Pharisees and all the Jews practice the customs handed down to them from their forefathers,

The Pharisee noticed that He did not first wash before lunch, and was surprised.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees have the habit of cleaning the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside you yourselves are full of greed and wickedness.

Meanwhile as the people had gathered in tens of thousands, so that they were trampling upon one another, He began to say, first of all, to His disciples: "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

For I tell you that unless your righteousness far surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the kingdom of heaven at all.

"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee, the other a tax-collector.

The Pharisee stood and said this self-centered prayer, 'O God, I thank you that I am not like the rest of men, robbers, rogues, adulterers, or even like this tax-collector. I fast two days in the week. I pay a tithe on everything I get.'

but the Pharisees and experts in the law thwarted God's purpose for themselves by refusing to be baptized by him.