34 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

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You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the look of the earth and sky; and why can you not interpret this present time?

Meanwhile as the people gathered in thousands, until they actually trod on one another, he proceeded to say to his disciples first of all, "Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees, that is, hypocrisy.

But the Master answered, "You hypocrites! Does not every one of you untie his ox or his donkey from the stall on the Sabbath and lead him away to water him?

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you pay tithes on mint, dill, and cummin, and you have let the weightier matters of the Law go??ustice, mercy, and integrity. But you should have observed these, without overlooking the others.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you are like white-washed tombs! They look well on the outside, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead, and all that is unclean.

So you outwardly appear to men to be upright, but within you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

So when you are going to give to charity, do not blow a trumpet before yourself, as the hypocrites do, in the synagogues and the streets, to make people praise them. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get!

"When you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the squares, to let people see them. I tell you, that is the only reward they will get!

Free yourselves, therefore, from all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander of any kind,

and will cut him in two, and put him with the hypocrites, to weep and gnash his teeth.

"But alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you lock the doors of the Kingdom of Heaven in men's faces, for you will neither go in yourselves nor let those enter who are trying to do so.

The wisdom that is from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, considerate, willing to yield, full of compassion and good deeds, whole-hearted, straightforward.

Should we pay it, or refuse to pay it?" But he saw through their pretense, and said to them, "Why do you put me to such a test? Bring me a denarius to look at."

"But take care not to do your good deeds in public for people to see, for, if you do, you will get no reward from your Father in heaven.

You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get the speck out of your brother's eye.

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied finely about you when he said,

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Your love must be genuine. You must hate what is wrong, and hold to what is right.

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But he saw their malice, and said,

"When you fast, do not put on a gloomy look, like the hypocrites, for they neglect their personal appearance to let people see that they are fasting. I tell you, that is all the reward they will get.

"Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you build tombs for the prophets, and decorate the monuments of the upright,

How can you say to your brother, 'Brother, just let me get that speck out of your eye,' when you cannot see the beam in your own eye? You hypocrite! First get the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see to get out the speck in your brother's eye.

The other Jewish Christians followed his example in concealing their real views, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their pose.

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you scour land and sea to make one convert, and when he is converted you make him twice as fit for the pit as you are.

" 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

But he said to them, "It was about you hypocrites that Isaiah prophesied so finely, in the words, " 'This people honor me with their lips, Yet their hearts are far away from me.

You serpents! You brood of snakes! How can you escape being sentenced to the pit?

Alas for you, you hypocritical scribes and Pharisees, for you clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Why do you keep looking at the speck in your brother's eye, and pay no attention to the beam that is in your own?