13 Bible Verses about Characteristics Of Pharisees

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

All things therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, observe and do;

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

And the disciples of John and of the Pharisees used to fast: and they come and say to him, Why do the disciples of John and of the Pharisees fast, but thy disciples fast not?

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

Now the Pharisees and all the Jews, except they wash their hands to the wrist, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

And he went in and sat down to table. But the Pharisee seeing it, marvelled, that he had not first washed before dinner. And the Lord said to him,

Now ye Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the dish; but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness.

In the mean time, an innumerable multitude being gathered together, so that they trod one upon another, he said to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

For I say to you, That unless your righteousness shall exceed the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.

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

The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed thus, God I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, rapacious, unjust, adulterers, or even as this publican. I fast twice in the week: I give tythes of all that I possess.

But the Pharisees and scribes made void the counsel of God, toward themselves, being not baptized of him.