Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

`And what think ye? A man had two children, and having come to the first, he said, Child, go, to-day be working in my vineyard.'

And he answering said, `I will not,' but at last, having repented, he went.

`And having come to the second, he said in the same manner, and he answering said, I go , sir, and went not;

which of the two did the will of the father?' They say to him, `The first.' Jesus saith to them, `Verily I say to you, that the tax-gatherers and the harlots do go before you into the reign of God,

for John came unto you in the way of righteousness, and ye did not believe him, and the tax-gatherers and the harlots did believe him, and ye, having seen, repented not at last--to believe him.

and he saith to him, Comrade, how didst thou come in hither, not having clothing of the marriage-feast? and he was speechless.

`Then said the king to the ministrants, Having bound his feet and hands, take him up and cast forth to the outer darkness, there shall be the weeping and the gnashing of the teeth;

saying, `On the seat of Moses sat down the scribes and the Pharisees;

all, then, as much as they may say to you to observe, observe and do, but according to their works do not, for they say, and do not;

for they bind together burdens heavy and grievous to be borne, and lay upon the shoulders of men, but with their finger they will not move them.

`And all their works they do to be seen by men, and they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the fringes of their garments,

they love also the chief couches in the supper, and the chief seats in the synagogues,

and the salutations in the market-places, and to be called by men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

`And ye--ye may not be called Rabbi, for one is your director--the Christ, and all ye are brethren;

and ye may not call any your father on the earth, for one is your Father, who is in the heavens,

nor may ye be called directors, for one is your director--the Christ.

And the greater of you shall be your ministrant,

and whoever shall exalt himself shall be humbled, and whoever shall humble himself shall be exalted.

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye eat up the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, because of this ye shall receive more abundant judgment.

`Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye go round the sea and the dry land to make one proselyte, and whenever it may happen--ye make him a son of gehenna twofold more than yourselves.

`Woe to you, blind guides, who are saying, Whoever may swear by the sanctuary, it is nothing, but whoever may swear by the gold of the sanctuary--is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gold, or the sanctuary that is sanctifying the gold?

`And, whoever may swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whoever may swear by the gift that is upon it--is debtor!

Fools and blind! for which is greater, the gift, or the altar that is sanctifying the gift?