Matthew 23:28

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Cross References

Psalm 51:6

You desire truth in the inward being; therefore teach me wisdom in my secret heart.

Proverbs 26:26

though hatred is covered with guile, the enemy’s wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Matthew 23:27

“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.

Matthew 23:29

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

Matthew 23:5

They do all their deeds to be seen by others, for they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long.

Luke 16:15

So he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of others, but God knows your hearts, for what is prized by humans is an abomination in the sight of God.

Galatians 2:13

And the other Jews joined him in this hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.

1 Samuel 16:7

But the Lord said to Samuel, “Do not look on his appearance or on the height of his stature, because I have rejected him, for the Lord does not see as mortals see; they look on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”