Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

who are devouring the widows' houses, and for a pretence are making long prayers; these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

And the Lord said unto him, `Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

unthinking! did not He who made the outside also the inside make?

But what ye have give ye as alms, and, lo, all things are clean to you.

`But woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye tithe the mint, and the rue, and every herb, and ye pass by the judgment, and the love of God; these things it behoveth to do, and those not to be neglecting.

`Woe to you, the Pharisees, because ye love the first seats in the synagogues, and the salutations in the market-places.

`Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, because ye are as the unseen tombs, and the men walking above have not known.'

And one of the lawyers answering, saith to him, `Teacher, these things saying, us also thou dost insult;'

and he said, `And to you, the lawyers, woe! because ye burden men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves with one of your fingers do not touch the burdens.

`Woe to you, because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Then do ye testify, and are well pleased with the works of your fathers, because they indeed killed them, and ye do build their tombs;

because of this also the wisdom of God said: I will send to them prophets, and apostles, and some of them they shall kill and persecute,

that the blood of all the prophets, that is being poured forth from the foundation of the world, may be required from this generation;

from the blood of Abel unto the blood of Zacharias, who perished between the altar and the house; yes, I say to you, It shall be required from this generation.

`Woe to you, the lawyers, because ye took away the key of the knowledge; yourselves ye did not enter; and those coming in, ye did hinder.'

At which time the myriads of the multitude having been gathered together, so as to tread upon one another, he began to say unto his disciples, first, `Take heed to yourselves of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy;

and there is nothing covered, that shall not be revealed; and hid, that shall not be known;

And he said also to the multitudes, `When ye may see the cloud rising from the west, immediately ye say, A shower doth come, and it is so;

and when--a south wind blowing, ye say, that there will be heat, and it is;

hypocrites! the face of the earth and of the heaven ye have known to make proof of, but this time--how do ye not make proof of it ?

and he laid on her his hands, and presently she was set upright, and was glorifying God.

And the chief of the synagogue answering--much displeased that on the sabbath Jesus healed--said to the multitude, `Six days there are in which it behoveth us to be working; in these, then, coming, be healed, and not on the sabbath-day.'

Then the Lord answered him and said, `Hypocrite, doth not each of you on the sabbath loose his ox or ass from the stall, and having led away, doth water it ?

and this one, being a daughter of Abraham, whom the Adversary bound, lo, eighteen years, did it not behove to be loosed from this bond on the sabbath-day?'

And he saying these things, all who were opposed to him were being ashamed, and all the multitude were rejoicing over all the glorious things that are being done by him.