Quotes About Hypocrisy

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.í”

“Watch out!” Jesus told them. “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Then the man went to the second son and told him the same thing. ëI will, sir,í he said. But he did not go.

When the chief priests and Pharisees heard His parables, they knew that Jesus was speaking about them.

But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

They tie up heavy, burdensome loads and lay them on menís shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to lift a finger to move them.

All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in menís faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

Woe to you, blind guides! You say, ëIf anyone swears by the temple, it means nothing; but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.í

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.

You blind guides! You strain out a gnat but swallow a camel.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of dead menís bones and every kind of impurity.

In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

And you say, ëIf we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.í

So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.

You snakes! You brood of vipers! How will you escape the sentence of hell?

Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ëThese people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.í