Matthew 23:27 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

²⁷ “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of uncleanness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²⁷ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, pretenders (hypocrites)! For you are like tombs that have been whitewashed, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men's bones and everything impure.

American Standard Version (1901)

²⁷ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

Common English Bible

²⁷ “How terrible it will be for you legal experts and Pharisees! Hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs. They look beautiful on the outside. But inside they are full of dead bones and all kinds of filth.

Catholic Public Domain Version

²⁷ Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed sepulchers, which outwardly appear brilliant to men, yet truly, inside, they are filled with the bones of the dead and with all filth.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

²⁷ Woe to you scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all filthiness.

Matthew 23:27 Cross References

Proverbs 26:23

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are smooth lips with an evil heart.

Numbers 19:16

Whoever in the open field touches one who has been killed by a sword or who has died naturally, or a human bone, or a grave shall be unclean seven days.

Matthew 23:28

So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves on which people unknowingly walk.”

Acts 23:3

At this Paul said to him, “God will strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting there to judge me according to the law, and yet in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”

Galatians 6:12

It is those who want to make a good showing in the flesh who try to compel you to be circumcised—only that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.