Bible Verses About Hypocrisy

then ye may begin to say, We did eat before thee, and did drink, and in our broad places thou didst teach;

and he shall say, I say to you, I have not known you whence ye are; depart from me, all ye workers of the unrighteousness.

`The salt is good, but if the salt doth become tasteless, with what shall it be seasoned?

neither for land nor for manure is it fit--they cast it without. He who is having ears to hear--let him hear.'

the Pharisee having stood by himself, thus prayed: God, I thank Thee that I am not as the rest of men, rapacious, unrighteous, adulterers, or even as this tax-gatherer;

I fast twice in the week, I give tithes of all things--as many as I possess.

`Take heed of the scribes, who are wishing to walk in long robes, and are loving salutations in the markets, and first seats in the synagogues, and first couches in the suppers,

who devour the houses of the widows, and for a pretence make long prayers, these shall receive more abundant judgment.'

Lo, thou art named a Jew, and dost rest upon the law, and dost boast in God,

and dost know the will, and dost approve the distinctions, being instructed out of the law,

and hast confidence that thou thyself art a leader of blind ones, a light of those in darkness,

an instructor of foolish ones, a teacher of babes, having the form of the knowledge and of the truth in the law.

Thou, then, who art teaching another, thyself dost thou not teach?

thou who art preaching not to steal, dost thou steal? thou who art saying not to commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou who art abhorring the idols, dost thou rob temples?

thou who in the law dost boast, through the transgression of the law God dost thou dishonour?

for the name of God because of you is evil spoken of among the nations, according as it hath been written.

For circumcision, indeed, doth profit, if law thou mayest practise, but if a transgressor of law thou mayest be, thy circumcision hath become uncircumcision.

If, therefore the uncircumcision the righteousness of the law may keep, shall not his uncircumcision for circumcision be reckoned?

and the uncircumcision, by nature, fulfilling the law, shall judge thee who, through letter and circumcision, art a transgressor of law.

For he is not a Jew who is so outwardly, neither is circumcision that which is outward in flesh;

but a Jew is he who is so inwardly, and circumcision is of the heart, in spirit, not in letter, of which the praise is not of men, but of God.

And it is not possible that the word of God hath failed; for not all who are of Israel are these Israel;

nor because they are seed of Abraham are all children, but--`in Isaac shall a seed be called to thee;'

for many walk of whom many times I told you--and now also weeping tell--the enemies of the cross of the Christ!

whose end is destruction, whose god is the belly, and whose glory is in their shame, who the things on earth are minding.