45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

that in hypocrisy shall speak lies; having their conscience seared as with a hot iron;

Ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that ye do not discern this time?

In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

The Lord then answered him and said, Thou hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall and lead it away to drink?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin and have omitted that which is more important of the law: judgment, mercy, and faith; these were expedient for ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whitewashed sepulchres, who indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all uncleanness.

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Therefore, when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

And in their 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 are, for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.

Having therefore left all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envies and all murmurings,

and shall cut him off and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites; there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of the heavens in front of men, for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye those that are entering to go in.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, modest, benevolent, full of mercy and of good fruits, not judgmental, unfeigned.

Shall we give or shall we not give? Then he, understanding their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? Bring me the coin that I may see it.

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

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou be able to see to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

that the hypocrite not reign, lest the people be ensnared.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather today, for the heaven has an aurora and is cloudy. O ye hypocrites, ye know how to make decisions based on the face of the heaven, and regarding the signs of the times are ye unable?

Let love be without dissimulation, abhorring that which is evil, causing you to come unto that which is good;

The hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbour, but the just are delivered with wisdom.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has stolen much, when God takes away his soul?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses and for a pretence make long prayer; therefore, ye shall receive the greater judgment.

He also shall be my saving health; for the hypocrite shall not enter into his presence.

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

Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They already have their reward.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous

Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself dost not behold the beam that is in thine own eye? Hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

But the hypocrites in heart shall irritate him more; they shall not cry out when he binds them.

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him, insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.

For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will invent iniquity to work unrighteousness and to speak scornfully against the LORD, leaving the soul of the hungry empty and taking away the drink of the thirsty.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more a son of hell than yourselves.

that the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

He answered and said unto them, Well has Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall he have mercy on their fatherless and widows, for every one is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For the congregation of the hypocrites shall be made desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

Ye serpents, ye generation of vipers, how can ye escape the judgment of hell?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup or of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and incontinence.

And why dost thou behold the mote that is in thy brother's eye but dost not consider the beam that is in thine own eye?