Hypocrisy (Bible Verses)

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Mark 7:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Matthew 15:8 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Matthew 7:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Judge not, that ye be not judged.

Matthew 6:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

2 Timothy 3:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

Titus 1:16 KJV Bible Verse Image
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They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

Matthew 23:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Matthew 7:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Romans 2:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.

Proverbs 26:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When he speaketh fair, believe him not: for there are seven abominations in his heart.

Matthew 15:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Luke 16:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Matthew 7:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Mark 7:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Romans 2:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore thou art inexcusable, O man, whosoever thou art that judgest: for wherein thou judgest another, thou condemnest thyself; for thou that judgest doest the same things.

Matthew 7:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

Matthew 6:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

Isaiah 1:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And when ye spread forth your hands, I will hide mine eyes from you: yea, when ye make many prayers, I will not hear: your hands are full of blood.

Matthew 23:4 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

John 8:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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So when they continued asking him, he lifted up himself, and said unto them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

Matthew 23:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Matthew 23:5 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Mark 11:14 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And Jesus answered and said unto it, No man eat fruit of thee hereafter for ever. And his disciples heard it.

Matthew 23:27 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

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For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision.

Romans 2:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Matthew 23:25 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Mark 12:38 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he said unto them in his doctrine, Beware of the scribes, which love to go in long clothing, and love salutations in the marketplaces,

Jeremiah 7:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Is this house, which is called by my name, become a den of robbers in your eyes? Behold, even I have seen it, saith the LORD.

Isaiah 29:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us?

Matthew 23:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also.

Proverbs 26:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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He that hateth dissembleth with his lips, and layeth up deceit within him;

Luke 20:46 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Beware of the scribes, which desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the highest seats in the synagogues, and the chief rooms at feasts;

Jeremiah 5:26 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For among my people are found wicked men: they lay wait, as he that setteth snares; they set a trap, they catch men.

John 7:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Judge not according to the appearance, but judge righteous judgment.

Romans 2:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Behold, thou art called a Jew, and restest in the law, and makest thy boast of God,

Matthew 23:24 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye blind guides, which strain at a gnat, and swallow a camel.

Luke 20:47 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which devour widows' houses, and for a shew make long prayers: the same shall receive greater damnation.

Mark 7:9 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

John 7:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Did not Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keepeth the law? Why go ye about to kill me?

Luke 11:43 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto you, Pharisees! for ye love the uppermost seats in the synagogues, and greetings in the markets.

Matthew 22:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then went the Pharisees, and took counsel how they might entangle him in his talk.

Luke 11:46 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he said, Woe unto you also, ye lawyers! for ye lade men with burdens grievous to be borne, and ye yourselves touch not the burdens with one of your fingers.

Matthew 15:6 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Psalms 50:17 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Seeing thou hatest instruction, and casteth my words behind thee.

Luke 11:47 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Woe unto you! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

Luke 11:40 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye fools, did not he that made that which is without make that which is within also?

Psalms 50:19 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.

Jeremiah 5:2 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And though they say, The LORD liveth; surely they swear falsely.

Matthew 23:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.

Galatians 2:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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But when Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed.

Matthew 23:15 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

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Their heart is divided; now shall they be found faulty: he shall break down their altars, he shall spoil their images.

Luke 12:1 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Isaiah 33:11 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye shall conceive chaff, ye shall bring forth stubble: your breath, as fire, shall devour you.

Romans 2:23 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Mark 12:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And they send unto him certain of the Pharisees and of the Herodians, to catch him in his words.

Jeremiah 7:10 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And come and stand before me in this house, which is called by my name, and say, We are delivered to do all these abominations?

Matthew 23:21 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And whoso shall swear by the temple, sweareth by it, and by him that dwelleth therein.

Mark 12:40 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Which devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayers: these shall receive greater damnation.

Matthew 15:7 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,

Matthew 22:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And he saith unto him, Friend, how camest thou in hither not having a wedding garment? And he was speechless.

Isaiah 1:12 KJV Bible Verse Image
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When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to tread my courts?

Romans 2:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And thinkest thou this, O man, that judgest them which do such things, and doest the same, that thou shalt escape the judgment of God?

Galatians 2:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation.

Matthew 23:3 KJV Bible Verse Image
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All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Luke 6:42 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Either how canst thou say to thy brother, Brother, let me pull out the mote that is in thine eye, when thou thyself beholdest not the beam that is in thine own eye? Thou hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of thine own eye, and then shalt thou see clearly to pull out the mote that is in thy brother's eye.

Luke 11:48 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Truly ye bear witness that ye allow the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and ye build their sepulchres.

Romans 2:22 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?

Matthew 26:65 KJV Bible Verse Image
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Then the high priest rent his clothes, saying, He hath spoken blasphemy; what further need have we of witnesses? behold, now ye have heard his blasphemy.

Galatians 6:13 KJV Bible Verse Image
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For neither they themselves who are circumcised keep the law; but desire to have you circumcised, that they may glory in your flesh.

Luke 11:39 KJV Bible Verse Image
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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.

Bible Theme & Topic Recap: Hypocrisy

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