Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

He therefore that sweareth by the altar sweareth by it and by all things that are upon it.

And whosoever shall swear by the temple sweareth by it and by him that dwelleth in it.

And he that sweareth by heaven sweareth by the throne of God and by him that sitteth thereon.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you tithe mint and anise and cummin and have left the weightier things of the law: judgment and mercy and faith. These things you ought to have done and not to leave those undone.

Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you make clean the outside of the cup and of the dish, but within you are full of rapine and uncleanness.

Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

Wherefore you are witnesses against yourselves, that you are the sons of them that killed the prophets.

Fill ye up then the measure of your fathers.

You serpents, generation of vipers, how will you flee from the judgment of hell?

The lord of that servant shall come in a day that he hopeth not and at an hour that he knoweth not:

And shall separate him and appoint his portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Then he shall say to them also that shall be on his left hand: Depart from me, you cursed, into everlasting fire, which was prepared for the devil and his angels.

For I was hungry and you gave me not to eat: I was thirsty and you gave me not to drink.

I was a stranger and you took me not in: naked and you covered me not: sick and in prison and you did not visit me.

Then they also shall answer him, saying: Lord, when did we see thee hungry or thirsty or a stranger or naked or sick or in prison and did not minister to thee?

Then he shall answer them, saying: Amen: I say to you, as long as you did it not to one of these least, neither did you do it to me.

And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men.

For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

And he said to them in his doctrine: Beware of the scribes, who love to walk in long robes and to be saluted in the marketplace,

And to sit in the first chairs in the synagogues and to have the highest places at suppers: