Matthew 23:28 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²⁸ Even so, you also appear on the outside to be doing right in front of people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and sin.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁸ Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁸ 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)

²⁸ Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Common English Bible

²⁸ In the same way you look righteous to people. But inside you are full of pretense and rebellion.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁸ 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

²⁸ So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Matthew 23:28 Cross References

Matthew 23:27

'It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you are like white­washed tombs, used for burial [sites], which appear beautiful on the outside, but on the inside are full of the bones and decaying flesh of dead people.

Matthew 23:29

'It is too bad for you hypocritical experts in the Law of Moses and [you] Pharisees! For you construct burial sites for the prophets and decorate the tombs of people who were righteous.

Matthew 23:5

But they do all their deeds just to be seen by people. They wear elaborate Scripture texts displayed on their clothing and enlarge [conspicuously] the fringes of their robes.

Luke 16:15

And He said to them, “You are people who claim to be just in the eyes of [other] people, but God knows [what is in] your hearts. For that which is held up as most important among people [i.e., fame or fortune (?)] is disgusting in the eyes of God.

Galatians 2:13

Then the rest of the Jews also discontinued [eating with Gentiles] along with Peter, until even Barnabas was influenced to go along with this hypocritical practice.