Matthew 23:28 - The Scriptures 2009

²⁸ “So you too outwardly indeed appear righteous to men, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

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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

See, You have desired truth in the inward parts, And in the hidden part You make me know wisdom.

Proverbs 26:26

Hatred is covered by deceit. His evil is disclosed in the assembly.

Matthew 23:27

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you are like whitewashed tombs which outwardly indeed look well, but inside are filled with dead men’s bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:29

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! Because you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Matthew 23:5

And they do all their works to be seen by men, and they make their t’fillen wide and lengthen the tzitzit of their garments,

Luke 16:15

so He said to them, “You are those who declare yourselves righteous before men, but Elohim knows your hearts, because what is highly thought of among men is an abomination in the sight of Elohim.

Galatians 2:13

And the rest of the Yehuḏim joined him in hypocrisy, so that even Barnaḇa was led away by their hypocrisy.

1 Samuel 16:7

But יהוה said to Shemu’ĕl, “Do not look at his appearance or at the height of his stature, because I have refused him, for not as man sees, for man looks at the eyes, but יהוה looks at the heart.”