45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

In the hypocrisy of speaking falsely; burned with a hot iron in their own consciousness;

O hypocrites, ye know to judge the face of the earth and of heaven; and how do ye not judge this time?

Upon which, myriads of the crowd having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to speak to his disciples first, Keep yourselves from the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Then answered the Lord and said, Hypocrite, does not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and leading away, give to drink?

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye exact tenths and dill and cummin, and ye have left the weightier things of the law, judgment, and mercy, and faith: these it was necessary to do, and not to let go those.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitewashed tombs, which without indeed appear beautiful, but within are full of the bones of the dead, and of all uncleanness.

So also ye without truly appear just to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

When therefore thou doest alms, thou shouldst not sound the trumpet before thee, as hypocrites do in the assemblies, and in the streets, that they might be praised by men. Verily I say to you, They have their reward.

I sat not with men of vanity, and I will not go in with those lying hid.

And in their being weak they shall be helped with a little help: and many were joined to them by flatteries.

And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites; for they love in the assemblies, and in the corners of the broad ways to stand praying, so that they might appear to men. Verily I say to you, that they have their reward.

Therefore setting aside all wickedness, and all artifice, and dissimulation; and envies, and all calumnies,

And he shall cut him in two equal parts, and he shall set his portion with the hypocrites: and there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye lock up the kingdom of the heavens before men: for ye come not in yourselves, neither those coming in, permit ye to come in.

And the wisdom from above is truly first pure, then peaceful, decorous, docile, full of mercy and good fruits, not separated, and unfeigned.

Should we give, or not give? And he knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a drachma that I might see it.

Attend ye not to do your justice before men, to be seen to them; and if otherwise ye have no reward from your Father which in the heavens.

Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine eye, and thou shalt see clearly to cast out the mote from thy brother's eye.

Hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

From the reigning of the profane man from the people being snared.

And in the morning, Today, wintry weather: for heaven, being sad, is fiery red. Hypocrites, truly ye know to decide the face of heaven, but the signs of the times ye cannot.

Love unfeigned. Hating evil; fastened to good.

With the mouth the profane will destroy his neighbor: and by knowledge, shall the just one be delivered.

For what the hope of the profane one if he shall plunder? for God shall draw out his soul.

Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for pretence, praying at great lengths; for this shall ye receive more distingnished judgment.

Also he is to me for salvation for a profane one shall not come before him.

But Jesus, having known their evil, said, Why tempt ye me, hypocrites?

And when ye fast, be not, as hypocrites, of gloomy aspect: for they conceal their faces that they might appear to men fasting. Verily I say to you, That they have their reward.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the tombs of the prophets, and deck the monuments of the just,

Or how Canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, suffer that I cast out the mote in thine eye, thyself not beholding the beam in thine eye? O hypocrite, cast out first the beam from thine own eye, and then shalt thou see through to cast out the mote in thy brother's eye.

And the profane of heart shall set up anger: they will not cry if he bound them.

And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

For the foolish will speak folly, and his heart will do vanity to do profaneness and to speak error to Jehovah, to empty the soul of the hungry; and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees hypocrites! for ye go about sea and dry land to make one proselyte, and when he should become, ye make him the son of hell, twofold more than you.

For the rejoicing of the unjust drawing near, and the gladness of the profane even for a moment

This people draw near me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips; but their heart keeps off far from me.

And he having answered, said to them, That Esaias prophesied well concerning you, as it has been written, This people honour me with lips, and their heart keeps far from me.

For this upon their young men Jehovah shall not rejoice, and their orphans and their widows he will not compassionate; for they all are polluted and doing evil, and every mouth speaking folly. In all this his anger turned not back, and yet his hand stretched out

For the assembly of the profane is hard, and fire consumed the tents of the gift

Serpents, generations of vipers, how would ye flee from the judgment of hell?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup, and the side dish of sweet-meats, and within they are full of pillage and bad mixture.

And why seest thou the mote which is in thy brother's eye, and the beam in thine eye thou observest not?