45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

Speaking lies in hypocrisy, having their conscience seared 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 mean time, when there was gathered an innumerable multitude of people, so that they trod one upon another, he began to say to 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, doth not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his ass from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint, and anise, and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ye ought to have done, and not to leave the others undone.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like whitened sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

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

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

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

Now when they shall fall, they shall be assisted 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 by men. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.

Wherefore, laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil-speakings,

And will cut him asunder, 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 ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering, to go in.

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

Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said to them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen by them: otherwise ye have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

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

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

That the hypocrite may not reign, lest the people should be ensnared.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather to-day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?

Let love be without dissimulation. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.

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 to men to fast. Verily, I say to you, they have their reward.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,

Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thy eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thy own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thy 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 heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.

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

For the vile person will speak villainy, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make 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 compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him two-fold more the child of hell than yourselves.

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

This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered and said to them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

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

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

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

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

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thy own eye?