Matthew 23:27

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

'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.

Cross References

Matthew 23:28

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.

Luke 11:44

“It is too bad for you! For you people are like obscure grave sites that people walk over without knowing it.”

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to the head priest, “God will hit you, you white-washed wall [i.e., you hypocrite]. Are you sitting in judgment over me according to the Law of Moses and [yet] do you order me to be hit contrary to that law?”

Galatians 6:12

Those who attempt to make a good impression by trying to force you to be circumcised really want only to avoid being persecuted for their commitment to Christ.