Matthew 23:27

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“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.

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.