Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

I have woven my bed with cords, I have covered it with painted tapestry, brought from Egypt.

I have perfumed my bed with myrrh, aloes, and cinnamon.

Come, let us be inebriated with the breasts, and let us enjoy the desired embraces, till the day appear.

For my husband is not at home, he is gone a very long journey.

He took with him a bag of money: he will return home the day of the full moon.

She entangled him with many words, and drew him away with the flattery of her lips.

Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:

Because, like a soothsayer, and diviner, he thinketh that which he knoweth not. Eat and drink, will he say to thee: and his mind is not with thee.

The meats which thou hadst eaten, thou shalt vomit up: and shalt loose thy beautiful words.

As he is guilty that shooteth arrows, and lances unto death.

So is the man that hurteth his friend deceitfully: and when he is taken, saith: I did it in jest.

Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross.

An enemy is known by his lips, when in his heart he entertaineth deceit.

When he shall speak low, trust him not: because there are seven mischiefs in his heart.

He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

To what purpose do you offer me the multitude of your victims, saith the Lord? I am full, I desire not holocausts of rams, and fat of fatlings, and blood of calves, and lambs, and buck goats.

When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

Offer sacrifice no more in vain: incense is an abomination to me. The new moons, and the sabbaths and other festivals I will not abide, your assemblies are wicked.

My soul hateth your new moons, and your solemnities: they are become troublesome to me, I am weary of bearing them.

And when you stretch forth your hands, I will turn away my eyes from you: and when you multiply prayer, I will not hear: for your hands are full of blood.

Woe to you that are deep of heart, to hide your counsel from the Lord: and their works are in the dark, and they say: Who seeth us, and who knoweth us?

This thought of yours is perverse: as if the clay should think against the potter, and the work should say to the maker thereof: Thou madest me not: or the thing framed should say to him that fashioned it: Thou understandest not.

The fool shall no more be called prince: neither shall the deceitful be called great:

For the fool will speak foolish things, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and speak to the Lord deceitfully, and to make empty the soul of the hungry, and take away drink from the thirsty.

Hear ye these things, O house of Jacob, you that are called by the name of Israel, and are come forth out of the waters of Juda, you who swear by the name of the Lord, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in justice.