45 Bible Verses about Hypocrisy

through the hypocrisy of men that speak lies, branded in their own conscience as with a hot iron.

You hypocrites, you know how to interpret the face of the earth and the heaven but how is it that you do not know how to interpret this time?

Thousands of people in the crowd were gathered together so much that they bumped into one another. He said to his disciples: First of all, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

The Lord answered: You hypocrites! You would untie your ox or your donkey from the stall and take it out to give it water on the Sabbath.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy and faith. You should do both and leave nothing undone.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that appear beautiful on the outside. They are full of dead men's bones and uncleanness on the inside.

You appear righteous to men. However, inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Do not loudly announce it when you give to the poor. The hypocrites do this in the houses of worship and on the streets. They do this to be praised by men. Believe me, they have already been paid in full.

I do not sit with deceitful men, and I will not be found among hypocrites.

When they fall, they will be helped with a little help; but many will join them in their flatteries.

Do not pray like the hypocrites! They want everyone to see them in the houses of worship and on the street corners. I assure you they have been paid in full.

Put away all badness and all deception, hypocrisy, envy, and all evil talk.

He will punish him severely, and send him to be with the hypocrites. There they will cry and grind their teeth.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You close the kingdom of heaven to people. You do not invite others to enter nor do you enter.

But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, reasonable (yielding), full of mercy and good fruits, without discord (partiality), without hypocrisy.

Should we pay or should we not pay? Knowing their hypocrisy he said to them: Why do you test me? Show me a denarius.

Be careful! Do not display your righteousness (good works) before men to be noticed by them. If you do, you will have no reward with your heavenly Father.

You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye. Then you can see to remove the speck out of your brother's eye.

You hypocrites (liars)! Isaiah's prophecy was right about you.

There would be nothing that nations could do to keep godless oppressors from ruling them.

And in the morning, the weather will be bad today for the sky is red and angry. You are able to see the face of heaven, but not the signs of the time.

Let love be without hypocrisy. Abhor evil and cling to good.

A godless hypocrite destroys his neighbor with his mouth. The righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

What hope doe the godless have when he is cut off, when God takes away his life?

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Indeed, this will turn out for my deliverance, for no godless man would dare come before him!

Jesus perceived their wickedness. He said: Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

When you abstain from food, do not be like the hypocrites, with sad faces to be seen by men. They have received their reward.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You build the tombs for the prophets and decorate the tombs of the righteous.

How can you say to your brother: 'Let me remove the speck in your eye when you do not notice the beam in your own eye?' You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye. Then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

The godless in heart harbor resentment. Even when he fetters them, they do not cry for help.

The rest of the Jews were hypocrites with him, so much that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

A fool speaks foolishly and thinks up evil things to do. He promotes wickedness and what he says insults Jehovah. He never feeds the hungry or gives thirsty people anything to drink.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You travel on both sea and land to make one convert. When this happens, you make him twice as deserving of destruction in the trash fires of the valley of Hinnom (Greek: Gehenna).

The success of the wicked is brief and the joy of the godless lasts but a moment.

These people honor me with their lips, but their heart (innermost thoughts) is far from me.

He told them: Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites. It is written: 'This people honor me with their lips but their heart is far from me.

That is why Jehovah did not rejoice in their young people, nor show compassion to their orphans and widows. Everyone was godless and an evildoer, and every mouth spoke wickedness (foolishness) (vileness). In all this his anger has not turned away. His hand is stretched out still (ready to apply his power).

The company of the godless will be barren. And fire will consume the tents of those who love bribes.

You serpents! You offspring of vipers! How will you escape from being destroyed in the ever-burning fires of the Valley of Hinnom? (Greek: Gehenna, the trash fires in the valley just outside of Jerusalem)

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, yet the inside is full of extortion and excess.

Why do you see the speck in your brother's eye? Do you not consider the beam in your own eye?