You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
Matthew 23:28 - New Revised Standard Version So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Dugang nga mga bersyonKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity. [Ps. 5:9.] American Standard Version (1901) Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Common English Bible In the same way you look righteous to people. But inside you are full of pretense and rebellion. Catholic Public Domain Version So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.
though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy's wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous,
They do all their deeds to be seen by others; for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.
So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others; but God knows your hearts; for what is prized by human beings is an abomination in the sight of God.
And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him; for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”