34 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

through plausible sophists who are seared in conscience ??3 men who prohibit marriage and insist on abstinence from foods which God created for believing men, who understand the Truth, to partake of with thanksgiving.

You hypocrites, you know how to decipher the look of earth and sky; how is it you cannot decipher the meaning of this era?

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,

The Lord replied to him, "You hypocrites, does not each of you untether his ox or ass from the stall on the sabbath and lead it away to drink?

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you tithe mint and dill and cummin, and omit the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faithfulness; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omit ting the former.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you are like tombs white-washed; they look comely on the outside, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all manner of impurity.

So to men you seem just, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

When you give alms, make no flourish of trumpets like the hypocrites in the synagogues and the streets, so as to win applause from men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Also, when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites, for they like to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street-corners, so as to be seen by men; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

So off with all malice, all guile and insincerity and envy and slander of every kind!

he will cut him in two and assign him the fate of the impious. There men will wail and gnash their teeth.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you shut the Realm of heaven in men's faces; you neither enter yourselves, nor will you let those enter who are on the point of entering.

The wisdom from above is first of all pure, then peaceable, forbearing, conciliatory, full of mercy and wholesome fruit, unambiguous, straightforward;

Are we to pay, or are we not to pay?" But he saw their trick and said to them, "Why tempt me? Bring me a shilling. Let me see it."

Take care not to practise your charity before men in order to be noticed; otherwise you get no reward from your Father in heaven. No,

You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly how to take the splinter out of your brother's eye.

You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said,

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Let your love be a real thing, with a loathing for evil and a bent for what is good.

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But Jesus detected their malice. He said, "Why do you tempt me, you hypocrites?

When you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they look woebegone to let men see they are fasting; I tell you truly, they do get their reward.

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the just,

How dare you say to your brother, 'Brother, let me take out the splinter that is in your eye,' and you never notice the plank in your own eye? You hypocrite! take the plank out of your own eye first, and then you will see properly to take out the splinter in your brother's eye.

The rest of the Jewish Christians also played false along with him, so much so that even Barnabas was carried away by their false play.

Woe to you, you impious scribes and Pharisees! you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when you succeed you make him a son of Gehenna twice as bad as yourselves.

This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites ??as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me:

You serpents! you brood of vipers! how can you escape being sentenced to Gehenna?

Woe to you, you irreligious scribes and Pharisees! you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are filled with your rapacity and self-indulgence.

Why do you note the splinter in your brother's eye and fail to see the plank in your own eye?