Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

who like to swallow up widows' houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!"

However, the Lord said to him, “Now then, you P’rushim, you clean the outside of the cup and plate; but inside, you are full of robbery and wickedness.

Fools! Didn’t the One who made the outside make the inside too?

Rather, give as alms what is inside, and then everything will be clean for you!

“But woe to you P’rushim! You pay your tithes of mint and rue and every garden herb, but you ignore justice and the love of God. You have an obligation to do these things — but without disregarding the others!

“Woe to you P’rushim, because you love the best seat in the synagogues and being greeted deferentially in the marketplaces!

“Woe to you, because you are like unmarked graves, which people walk over without knowing it.”

One of the experts in Torah answered him, “Rabbi, by saying these things you are insulting us also.”

Yeshua said, “Woe to you Torah experts too! You load people down with burdens they can hardly bear, and you won’t lift a finger to help them!

“Woe to you! You build tombs in memory of the prophets, but your fathers murdered them!

Thus you testify that you completely approve of what your fathers did — they did the killing, you do the building!

Therefore the Wisdom of God said, ‘I will send them prophets and emissaries; they will kill some and persecute others’;

so that on this generation will fall the responsibility for all the prophets’ blood that has been shed since the world was established,

from the blood of Hevel to the blood of Z’kharyah, who was killed between the altar and the Holy Place. Yes, I tell you, the responsibility for it will fall on this generation!

“Woe to you Torah experts! For you have taken away the key of knowledge! Not only did you yourselves not go in, you also have stopped those who were trying to enter!”

Meanwhile, as a crowd in the tens of thousands gathered so closely as to trample each other down, Yeshua began to say to his talmidim first, “Guard yourselves from the hametz of the P’rushim, by which I mean their hypocrisy.

There is nothing covered up that will not be uncovered, or hidden that will not become known.

Then to the crowds Yeshua said, “When you see a cloud-bank rising in the west, at once you say that a rainstorm is coming;

and when the wind is from the south, you say there will be a heat wave, and there is.

Hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky — how is it that you don’t know how to interpret this present time?

He put his hands on her, and at once she stood upright and began to glorify God.

But the president of the synagogue, indignant that Yeshua had healed on Shabbat, spoke up and said to the congregation, “There are six days in the week for working; so come during those days to be healed, not on Shabbat!”

However, the Lord answered him, “You hypocrites! Each one of you on Shabbat — don’t you unloose your ox or your donkey from the stall and lead him off to drink?

This woman is a daughter of Avraham, and the Adversary kept her tied up for eighteen years! Shouldn’t she be freed from this bondage on Shabbat?”

By these words, Yeshua put to shame the people who opposed him; but the rest of the crowd were happy about all the wonderful things that were taking place through him.