Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Even so are the ways of all that forget God, and the hope of the hypocrite shall perish:

His folly shall not please him, and his trust shall be like the spider's web.

He shall lean upon his house, and it shall not stand: he shall prop it up, and it shall not rise:

He shall be blasted as a vine when its grapes are in the first flower, and as an olive tree that casteth its flower.

For the congregation of the hypocrite is barren, and fire shall devour their tabernacles, who love to take bribes.

This I know from the beginning, since man was placed upon the earth,

That the praise of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment.

If his pride mount up even to heaven, and his head touch the clouds:

In the end he shall be destroyed like a dunghill, and they that had seen him, shall say: Where is he?

As a dream that fleeth away he shall not be found, he shall pass as a vision of the night:

The eyes that had seen him, shall see him no more, neither shall his place any more behold him.

His children shall be oppressed with want, and his hands shall render to him his sorrow.

His bones shall be filled with the vices of his youth, and they shall sleep with him in the dust.

For when evil shall be sweet in his mouth, he will hide it under his tongue.

He will spare it, and not leave it, and will hide it in his throat.

His bread in his belly shall be turned into the gall of asps within him,

The riches which he hath swallowed, he shall vomit up, and God shall draw them out of his belly.

He shall suck the head of asps, and the viper's tongue shall kill him.

Let him not see the streams of the river, the brooks of honey and of butter.

He shall be punished for all that he did, and yet shall not be consumed: according to the multitude of his devices so also shall he suffer.

For what is the hope of the hypocrite if through covetousness he take by violence, and God deliver not his soul?

Will God hear his cry, when distress shall come upon him?

Or can he delight himself in the Almighty, and call upon God at all times?

This is the portion of a wicked man with God, and the inheritance of the violent, which they shall receive of the Almighty.

If his sons be multiplied, they shall be for the sword, and his grandsons shall not be filled with bread.