45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;

You hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky and of the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?

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

The Lord then answered him, and said, You hypocrite, does not each one of you on the sabbath loose his ox or his donkey from the stall, and lead him away to watering?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these ought you to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like unto whitewashed sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Therefore when you give your alms, do not sound a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

I have not sat with vain persons, neither will I go in with hypocrites.

Now when they shall fall, they shall be aided with a little help: but many shall join to them with flattery.

And when you pray, you shall not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Therefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speaking,

And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, neither allow you them that are entering to go in.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and compliant, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.

Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt you me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.

Take heed that you give not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise you have no reward of your Father who is in heaven.

You hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of your own eye; and then shall you see clearly to cast out the speck out of your brother's eye.

You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

That the hypocrite reigns not, lest the people be ensnared.

And in the morning, It will be foul weather today: for the sky is red and overcast. O you hypocrites, you can discern the appearance of the sky; but can you not discern the signs of the times?

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.

A hypocrite with his mouth destroys his neighbor: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he has gained, when God takes away his soul?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayer: therefore you shall receive the greater condemnation.

He also shall be my salvation: for a hypocrite shall not come before him.

But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why test me, you hypocrites?

Moreover when you fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

Either how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself behold not the beam that is in your own eye? you hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then shall you see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he binds them.

And the other Jews joined likewise with him; so that Barnabas also was carried away with their hypocrisy.

For the foolish person will speak foolishness, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel on sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?

These people draw near unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

He answered and said unto them, Well has Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Therefore the Lord shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for everyone is a hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.

For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tents of bribery.

You serpents, you generation of vipers, how can you escape the judgment of hell?

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

And why behold you the speck that is in your brother's eye, but consider not the beam that is in your own eye?