Matthew 15:8-9
These people [claim to] honor me with their lips [i.e., by what they say], but their heart is far from [honoring] me.
Matthew 23:13
"But it is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! [It is] because you withhold the kingdom of heaven from people, for you do not enter it yourselves, nor [do you] allow those who are trying to enter it to get in. {[{[Verse
John 1:47
[As] Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, He said [this] about him, "Look, [there is] a true Israelite, a completely honest man!"
John 4:24
God is Spirit and those who worship Him must worship in spirit and truth."
Romans 2:17
But if you call yourselves "Jews," and [claim to] rely on the law of Moses, and brag about [belonging to] God;
Romans 2:28-29
For that person is not a Jew who is one [merely] on the outside. And circumcision is not [merely] an outward physical ordinance.
Romans 9:6
But it is not as if the word of God [i.e., His promise to Israel] has failed [in its fulfillment]. For not all those descended from the Israelites are [truly] Israelites [i.e., God's people].
Romans 9:8
This means that it is not the physical descendants [of Abraham] who are God's children, but it is the children [born] according to [God's] promise who are [Abraham's true] descendants.
1 Timothy 4:2
[Such teaching will be spread] by hypocritical liars, whose consciences have been seared over as with a hot iron [i.e., making them insensitive to their guilt].
2 Timothy 3:2-5
For people will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant, abusive talkers, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy,
Revelation 2:9
I know [about] your suffering and your poverty (but you are [really] rich), and the slander of those who say they are Jews, though they [really] are not, but are a synagogue of Satan [i.e., they claimed to be an assembly of God's people, but in reality were serving Satan].
Revelation 3:9
Look at those who belong to the synagogue of Satan [See 2:9]; they claim to be Jews, yet they are not, but are lying. Watch, I will make them come and bow down at your feet [in respect] and [they will] know that I have loved you.