Matthew 23:27

Good News Translation

“How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:23

Insincere talk that hides what you are really thinking is like a fine glaze on a cheap clay pot.

Numbers 19:16

If any touch a person who has been killed or has died a natural death outdoors or if any touch a human bone or a grave, they become unclean for seven days.

Matthew 23:28

In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.

Luke 11:44

How terrible for you! You are like unmarked graves which people walk on without knowing it.”

Acts 23:3

Paul said to him, “God will certainly strike you—you whitewashed wall! You sit there to judge me according to the Law, yet you break the Law by ordering them to strike me!”

Galatians 6:12

The people who are trying to force you to be circumcised are the ones who want to show off and boast about external matters. They do it, however, only so that they may not be persecuted for the cross of Christ.