Bible Verses About Hypocrites

For until then he had not come upon any of them; they had only been immersed into the name of the Lord Yeshua.

Then, as Kefa and Yochanan placed their hands on them, they received the Ruach HaKodesh.

Shim‘on saw that the Spirit was given when the emissaries placed their hands on them, and he offered them money.

“Give this power to me, too,” he said, “so that whoever I place my hands on will receive the Ruach HaKodesh.”

But Kefa said to him, “Your silver go to ruin — and you with it, for thinking the free gift of God can be bought!

You have no part at all in this matter; because in the eyes of God, your heart is crooked.

So repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps you will yet be forgiven for holding such a thought in your heart.

For I see that you are extremely bitter and completely under the control of sin!”

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? —