Thematic Bible: Hypocrisy, an ever present element in false religion


Thematic Bible



The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites! Doesn't each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or donkey and lead it out of its stall to give it some water?




You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, yet you don't know how to interpret the present time?"

Then his master will punish him severely and assign him a place with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth."

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.


How can you say to your brother, "Brother, let me take the speck out of your eye,' when you don't see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you'll see clearly enough to remove the speck from your brother's eye."





In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

for as he thinks within himself, so he is. "Eat and drink!" he'll say to you, but his heart won't be with you.

Though he speaks graciously, don't believe him, for there are seven detestable things in his heart.


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