13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, neither angel, nor spirit; but the Pharisees confess both.

saying, The scribes and the Pharisees have sat down in Moses' seat;

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees fast often, but thy disciples do not fast?

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees did fast and therefore came and said unto him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

And the Pharisees also, who were covetous, heard all these things, and they derided him.

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands often, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner.

And the Lord said unto him, Now do ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of ravening and wickedness.

In the meantime, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

For I say unto you, That except your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no case enter into the kingdom of the heavens.

Two men went up into the temple to pray, the one a Pharisee, and the other a publican.

The Pharisee stood and prayed thus with himself, God, I thank thee that I am not as other men are: extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast two meals every sabbath; I give tithes of all that I possess.

But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, being not baptized of him.