Matthew 23:27

Tree of Life Version

“Woe to you, Torah scholars and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of dead men’s bones and everything unclean.

Cross References

Proverbs 26:23

Like silver glaze overlaying earthenware are fervent lips with an evil heart.

Numbers 19:16

Anyone out in the open field who touches a dead body, whether killed by a sword or was killed by a natural cause, or touches a human bone or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.

Matthew 23:28

In the same way, you appear righteous to men on the outside, but are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Luke 11:44

Woe to you, for you are like unmarked tombs, and people walk over them without knowing.”

Acts 23:3

Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you on the mouth, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit judging me according to the Torah, and yet in violation of the Torah you order me to be struck?”

Galatians 6:12

Those wanting to look good outwardly are trying to force you to be circumcised—only so they will not be persecuted for the cross of Messiah.