Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Matthew 23:28 - English Standard Version 2016 So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Just so, you also outwardly seem to people to be just and upright but inside you are full of pretense and lawlessness and iniquity. [Ps. 5:9.] American Standard Version (1901) Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. Common English Bible In the same way you look righteous to people. But inside you are full of pretense and rebellion. Catholic Public Domain Version So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being, and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people’s bones and all uncleanness.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,
They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,
And he said to them, “You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
And the rest of the Jews acted hypocritically along with him, so that even Barnabas was led astray by their hypocrisy.
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 sees not as man sees: man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart.”