Matthew 23:28 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

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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

Psalm 51:6

Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: And in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

Proverbs 26:26

Though his hatred cover itself with guile, His wickedness shall be openly shewed before the congregation.

Matthew 23:27

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.

Matthew 23:29

Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye build the sepulchres of the prophets, and garnish the tombs of the righteous,

Matthew 23:5

But all their works they do for to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

Luke 16:15

And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

Galatians 2:13

And the rest of the Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that even Barnabas was carried away with their dissimulation.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.