45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

speaking lies in hypocrisy, being seared in their own conscience,

Hypocrites! You know to discern the face of the heaven and the earth, but how is it that you do not discern this time?

In the meantime, when there had gathered together an innumerable crowd of people, so as to trample on one another, He began to say to His disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

And the Lord answered him and said, Hypocrite! Does not each one of you on the sabbath loosen his ox or ass from the stall and lead it away, to give it drink?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you pay tithes of mint and dill and cummin, and you have left undone the weightier matters of the Law, judgment, mercy, and faith. You ought to have done these and not to leave the other undone.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Even so you also appear righteous to men outwardly, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Therefore when you do your merciful deeds, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may have glory from men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

I have not sat with lying men, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

And when they stumble, they shall be helped with a little help, but many will join them, with hypocrisy.

And when you pray, you shall not be like the hypocrites. For they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Therefore laying aside all malice and all guile and hypocrisies and envyings, and all evil speakings,

And He shall cut him apart and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut up the kingdom of Heaven against men. For you neither go in, nor do you allow those entering to go in.

But the wisdom that is from above is first truly pure, then peaceable, gentle, easy to be entreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality and without hypocrisy.

Shall we give, or shall we not give? But knowing their hypocrisy, He said to them, Why do you tempt Me? Bring me a denarius so that I may see.

Take heed that you do not do your merciful deeds before men, to be seen by them. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in Heaven.

Hypocrite! First cast the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to cast the splinter out of your brother's eye.

Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

from the reigning of ungodly men, from being snares for the people.

And in the morning, Foul weather today; for the sky is red and gloomy. Hypocrites! You can discern the face of the sky, but you cannot see the signs of the times!

Let love be without hypocrisy, shrinking from evil, cleaving to good;

A hypocrite corrupts his neighbor with his mouth; but through knowledge the just shall be delivered.

For what is the hope of the ungodly when He cuts off, when God takes away his soul?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you devour widows' houses, and pray at length as a pretense. Therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

He also is my salvation, for an ungodly one shall not come before Him.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you tempt Me, hypocrites?

And when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, of a sad face. For they disfigure their faces so that they may appear to men to fast. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,

Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the splinter in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? Hypocrite! First cast out the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the splinter that is in your brother's eye.

But the ungodly in heart heap up wrath; they cry not when He binds them.

And the rest of the Jews also dissembled with him, so as even Barnabas was led away with their dissembling.

For the fool will speak folly, and his heart work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy and to speak error against Jehovah, to make the soul of the hungry empty, and he will take away the drink of the thirsty.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you compass sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

that the exulting of the wicked is short, and the joy of the ungodly is for a moment?

"This people draws near to Me with their mouth, and honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

But He answered and said to them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

For this the Lord shall not rejoice over their young men, nor shall He have mercy on their orphans and widows; for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks foolishness. In all this His anger is not turned away, but His hand is stretched out still.

For the company of the ungodly shall be barren, and fire shall devour the tents of bribery.

Serpents! Offspring of vipers! How can you escape the condemnation of hell?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

And why do you look on the splinter that is in your brother's eye, but do not consider the beam that is in your own eye?