Bible Verses About The Pharisees And Hypocrisy

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

Direct Gospel image of whitewashed tombs

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Direct inward hypocrisy passage

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.

Direct outside-inside contrast

But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.

Direct Gospel charge about shutting out the kingdom

Then Jesus said unto them, Take heed and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Direct Gospel warning about Pharisees’ leaven

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are as graves which appear not, and the men that walk over them are not aware of them.

Direct grave image that fits hidden uncleanness

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.

Direct passage about long prayers for a pretense

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

Direct Gospel warning about making converts worse

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Direct Gospel contrast with weightier matters of the law

Then understood they how that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the doctrine of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees.

Direct explanation that the warning is about doctrine

In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Direct Gospel passage about Pharisee hypocrisy

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

Direct inward wickedness passage

How is it that ye do not understand that I spake it not to you concerning bread, that ye should beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and of the Sadducees?

Direct question about understanding the warning

But woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and all manner of herbs, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

Direct Gospel parallel about judgment and love of God

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,

Direct passage about honoring prophets while resisting truth

And he charged them, saying, Take heed, beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, and of the leaven of Herod.

Direct related passage with the same warning

Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Direct passage of the inside-outside contrast

A little leaven leaveneth the whole lump.

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It is like leaven, which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal, till the whole was leavened.

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The shew of their countenance doth witness against them; and they declare their sin as Sodom, they hide it not. Woe unto their soul! for they have rewarded evil unto themselves.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.

All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

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And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

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Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.

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This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

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And the Pharisees went forth, and straightway took counsel with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

Shows Pharisees plotting against Jesus but not the tradition point directly

And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

Scripture passage attached to the early Christian evidence page.