3 Bible Verses about Pretending

who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation."

But as the sailors were trying to escape from the ship and had let down the lifeboat into the sea, on the pretense of laying out anchors from the bow,

So they watched him, and sent spies who pretended to be righteous, that they might catch him on what he said, in order to deliver him up to the power and authority of the governor.