13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

For while the Sadducees declare there is no such thing as resurrection, angels, or spirits, the Pharisees affirm them all.

"The scribes and Pharisees sit on the seat of Moses;

Then the disciples of John came up to him and said, "Why do we and the Pharisees fast a great deal, and your disciples do not fast?"

As the disciples of John and of the Pharisees were observing a fast, people came and asked him, "Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, and your disciples do not fast?"

Now the Pharisees who were fond of money heard all this, and they sneered at him.

(The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders;

The Pharisee was astonished to see that he had not washed before the meal,

but the Lord said to him, "You Pharisees do clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but your inner life is filled with rapacity and malice.

Meanwhile as the crowd was gathering in its thousands till they trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Be on your guard against the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy,

For I tell you, unless your goodness excels that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never get into the Realm of heaven.

"Two men went up to pray in the temple; one was a Pharisee and the other was a taxgatherer.

The Pharisee stood up and prayed by himself as follows; 'I thank thee, O God, I am not like the rest of men, thieves, rogues, and immoral, or even like yon taxgatherer. Twice a week I fast; on all my income I pay tithes.'

but the Pharisees and jurists, who had refused his baptism, frustrated God's purpose for themselves.)