13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees
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For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor an angel, nor a spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?"
The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all this, and they scoffed at him.
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands in a special way, holding the tradition of the elders.
The Pharisee was surprised to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
In the meantime, when so many thousands of the multitude had gathered together that they trampled one another, he began to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
For I tell you, that unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.
"Two men went up to the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, 'God, I thank you that I am not like other menextortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.'
But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)
