Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Whosoeuer therefore sweareth by the altar, sweareth by it, and by all things thereon.

And whosoeuer sweareth by the Temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

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

Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye tithe mynt, and annyse, and cummyn, and leaue the weightier matters of the law, as iudgement, and mercy and fidelitie. These ought ye to haue done, and not to haue left the other.

Ye blinde guides, which straine out a gnat, and swallowe a camell.

Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.

Thou blinde Pharise, cleanse first the inside of the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be cleane also.

Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.

So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

Wo be vnto you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye build the tombes of the Prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

And say, If we had bene in the dayes of our fathers, we would not haue bene partners with them in the blood of the Prophets.

So then ye be witnesses vnto your selues, that ye are the children of them that murthered the Prophets.

Fulfill ye also ye measure of your fathers.

O serpents, the generation of vipers, howe should ye escape the damnation of hell!

That seruaunts master will come in a day, when he looketh not for him, and in an houre that he is not ware of,

And will cut him off, and giue him his portion with hypocrites: there shalbe weeping, and gnashing of teeth.

Then shall he say vnto them on ye left hand, Depart from me ye cursed, into euerlasting fire, which is prepared for the deuill and his angels.

For I was an hungred, and ye gaue me no meate: I thirsted, and ye gaue me no drinke:

I was a stranger, and ye tooke me not in vnto you: I was naked, and ye clothed me not: sicke, and in prison, and ye visited me not.

Then shall they also answere him, saying, Lord, when sawe we thee an hungred, or a thirst, or a stranger, or naked, or sicke, or in prison, and did not minister vnto thee?

Then shall he answere them, and say, Verely I say vnto you, in as much as ye did it not to one of the least of these, ye did it not to me.

But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men.

For ye lay the commandement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe.

Moreouer he saide vnto them in his doctrine, Beware of the Scribes which loue to goe in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets,

And the chiefe seates in the Synagogues, and the first roumes at feastes,