Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Then you shall begin to say: We have eaten and drunk in thy presence: and thou hast taught in our streets.

And he shall say to you: I know you not, whence you are. Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.

Salt is good. But if the salt shall lose its savour, wherewith shall it be seasoned?

It is neither profitable for the land nor for the dunghill: but shall be cast out. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear.

The Pharisee standing, prayed thus with himself: O God, I give thee thanks that I am not as the rest of men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, as also is this publican.

I fast twice in a week: I give tithes of all that I possess.

Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes and love salutations in the market place and the first chairs in the synagogues and the chief rooms at feasts:

Who devour the houses of widows, feigning long prayer. These shall receive greater damnation.

But if thou art called a Jew and restest in the law and makest thy boast of God,

And knowest his will and approvest the more profitable things, being instructed by the law:

Art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them that are in darkness,

An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, having the form of knowledge and of truth in the law.

Thou therefore, that teachest another, teachest not thyself: thou, that preachest that men should not steal, stealest.

Thou, that sayest men should not commit adultery, committest adultery: thou, that abhorrest idols, committest sacrilege:

Thou, that makest thy boast of the law, by transgression of the law dishonourest God.

(For the name of God through you is blasphemed among the Gentiles, as it is written.)

Circumcision profiteth indeed, if thou keep the law: but if thou be a transgressor of the law, thy circumcision is made uncircumcision.

If then, the uncircumcised keep the justices of the law, shall not this uncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

And shall not that which by nature is uncircumcision, if it fulfil the law, judge thee, who by the letter and circumcision art a transgressor of the law?

For it is not he is a Jew, who is so outwardly: nor is that circumcision which is outwardly in the flesh.

But he is a Jew that is one inwardly and the circumcision is that of the heart, in the spirit not in the letter: whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Not as though the word of God hath miscarried. For all are not Israelites that are of Israel.

Neither are all they that are the seed of Abraham, children: but in Isaac shall thy seed be called.

For many walk, of whom I have told you often (and now tell you weeping) that they are enemies of the cross of Christ:

Whose end is destruction: whose God is their belly: and whose glory is in their shame: who mind earthly things.