Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

Then shall ye begin to say, We haue eaten and drunke in thy presence, and thou hast taught in our streetes.

But he shall say, I tell you, I knowe you not whence ye are: depart from me, all ye workers of iniquitie.

Salt is good: but if salt haue lost his sauour, wherewith shall it be salted?

It is neither meete for the land, nor yet for the dunghill, but men cast it out. He that hath eares to heare, let him heare.

The Pharise stoode and prayed thus with himselfe, O God, I thanke thee that I am not as other men, extortioners, vniust, adulterers, or euen as this Publican.

I fast twise in the weeke: I giue tithe of all that euer I possesse.

Beware of the Scribes, which willingly go in long robes, and loue salutations in the markets, and the highest seates in the assemblies, and the chiefe roomes at feastes:

Which deuoure widowes houses, and in shewe make long prayers: These shall receiue greater damnation.

Beholde, thou art called a Iewe, and restest in the Lawe, and gloriest in God,

And knowest his will, and triest the things that dissent from it, in that thou art instructed by the Lawe:

And persuadest thy selfe that thou art a guide of the blinde, a light of them which are in darkenesse,

An instructer of them which lacke discretion, a teacher of the vnlearned, which hast the forme of knowledge, and of the truth in ye Law.

Thou therefore, which teachest another, teachest thou not thy selfe? thou that preachest, A man should not steale, doest thou steale?

Thou that saist, A man should not commit adulterie, doest thou commit adulterie? thou that abhorrest idoles, committest thou sacrilege?

Thou that gloriest in the Lawe, through breaking the Lawe, dishonourest thou God?

For ye Name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

For circucision verely is profitable, if thou do the Lawe: but if thou be a transgressour of the Lawe, thy circumcision is made vncircumcision.

Therefore if the vncircumcision keepe the ordinances of the Lawe, shall not his vncircumcision be counted for circumcision?

And shall not vncircumcision which is by nature (if it keepe the Lawe) condemne thee which by the letter and circumcision art a transgressour of the Lawe?

For hee is not a Iewe, which is one outwarde: neither is that circumcision, which is outward in the flesh:

But he is a Iewe which is one within, and the circumcision is of the heart, in the spirite not in the letter, whose praise is not of men, but of God.

Notwithstanding it can not bee that the worde of God should take none effect: for all they are not Israel, which are of Israel:

Neither are they all children, because they are the seede of Abraham: but, In Isaac shall thy seede be called:

For many walke, of whom I haue told you often, and nowe tell you weeping, that they are the enemies of the Crosse of Christ:

Whose ende is damnation, whose God is their bellie, and whose glorie is to their shame, which minde earthly things.