Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Then you will say, ‘We ate and drank with you! you taught in our streets!’

and he will tell you, ‘I don’t know where you’re from. Get away from me, all you workers of wickedness!’

Salt is excellent. But if even the salt becomes tasteless, what can be used to season it?

It is fit for neither soil nor manure — people throw it out. Those who have ears that can hear, let them hear!”

The Parush stood and prayed to himself, ‘O God! I thank you that I am not like the rest of humanity — greedy, dishonest, immoral, or like this tax-collector!

I fast twice a week, I pay tithes on my entire income, . . . ’

“Watch out for the kind of Torah-teachers that like to walk around in robes and be greeted deferentially in the marketplaces, the kind that like to have the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets,

the kind that swallow up widows’ houses while making a show of davvening at great length. Their punishment will be all the worse!”

But if you call yourself a Jew and rest on Torah and boast about God

and know his will and give your approval to what is right, because you have been instructed from the Torah;

and if you have persuaded yourself that you are a guide to the blind, a light in the darkness,

an instructor for the spiritually unaware and a teacher of children, since in the Torah you have the embodiment of knowledge and truth;

then, you who teach others, don’t you teach yourself? Preaching, “Thou shalt not steal,” do you steal?

Saying, “Thou shalt not commit adultery,” do you commit adultery? Detesting idols, do you commit idolatrous acts?

You who take such pride in Torah, do you, by disobeying the Torah, dishonor God? —

as it says in the Tanakh, “For it is because of you that God’s name is blasphemed by the Goyim.”

For circumcision is indeed of value if you do what Torah says. But if you are a transgressor of Torah, your circumcision has become uncircumcision!

Therefore, if an uncircumcised man keeps the righteous requirements of the Torah, won’t his uncircumcision be counted as circumcision?

Indeed, the man who is physically uncircumcised but obeys the Torah will stand as a judgment on you who have had a b’rit-milah and have Torah written out but violate it!

For the real Jew is not merely Jewish outwardly: true circumcision is not only external and physical.

On the contrary, the real Jew is one inwardly; and true circumcision is of the heart, spiritual not literal; so that his praise comes not from other people but from God.

But the present condition of Isra’el does not mean that the Word of God has failed. For not everyone from Isra’el is truly part of Isra’el;

indeed, not all the descendants are seed of Avraham; rather, “What is to be called your ‘seed’ will be in Yitz’chak.”

For many — I have told you about them often before, and even now I say it with tears — live as enemies of the Messiah’s execution-stake.

They are headed for destruction! Their god is the belly; they are proud of what they ought to be ashamed of, since they are concerned about the things of the world.