45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

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Hypocrites, ye know how to judge of the appearance of the earth and of the heaven; how is it then that ye do not discern this time?

In those times, the myriads of the crowd being gathered together, so that they trod one on another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

The Lord therefore answered him and said, Hypocrites! does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the manger and leading it away, water it?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye pay tithes of mint and anise and cummin, and ye have left aside the weightier matters of the law, judgment and mercy and faith: these ye ought to have done and not have left those aside.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye are like whited sepulchres, which appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

When therefore thou doest alms, sound not a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither have I gone in with dissemblers;

And when they fall, they shall be helped with a little help; but many shall cleave to them with flatteries.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets so that they should appear to men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Laying aside therefore all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings and all evil speakings,

and shall cut him in two and appoint his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of teeth.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens before men; for ye do not enter, nor do ye suffer those that are entering to go in.

But the wisdom from above first is pure, then peaceful, gentle, yielding, full of mercy and good fruits, unquestioning, unfeigned.

Should we give, or should we not give? But he knowing their hypocrisy said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me a denarius that I may see it.

Take heed not to do your alms before men to be seen of them, otherwise ye have no reward with your Father who is in the heavens.

Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou wilt see clearly to cast out the mote out of the eye of thy brother.

Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

That the ungodly man reign not, that the people be not ensnared.

and in the morning, A storm to-day, for the sky is red and lowering; ye know how to discern the face of the sky, but ye cannot the signs of the times.

Let love be unfeigned; abhorring evil; cleaving to good:

With his mouth a hypocrite destroyeth his neighbour; but through knowledge are the righteous delivered.

For what is the hope of the ungodly, when God cutteth him off, when +God taketh away his soul?

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This also shall be my salvation, that a profane man shall not come before his face.

But Jesus, knowing their wickedness, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites?

And when ye fast, be not as the hypocrites, downcast in countenance; for they disfigure their faces, so that they may appear fasting to men: verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the tombs of the just,

or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, allow me, I will cast out the mote that is in thine eye, thyself not seeing the beam that is in thine eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine eye, and then thou shalt see clear to cast out the mote which is in the eye of thy brother.

But the godless in heart heap up anger; they cry not when he bindeth them:

and the rest of the Jews also played the same dissembling part with him; so that even Barnabas was carried away too by their dissimulation.

for the vile man will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against Jehovah, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye compass the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is become such, ye make him twofold more the son of hell than yourselves.

The exultation of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly man but for a moment?

This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me.

Therefore the Lord will not rejoice in their young men, neither will he have mercy on their fatherless and on their widows; for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, and his hand is stretched out still.

For the family of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Serpents, offspring of vipers, how should ye escape the judgment of hell?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within they are full of rapine and intemperance.

But why lookest thou on the mote that is in the eye of thy brother, but observest not the beam that is in thine eye?