Behold, you desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
Matthew 23:28 - Hebrew Names version (HNV) Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 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 desire truth in the inward parts. You teach me wisdom in the inmost place.
His malice may be concealed by deception, but his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you are like whitened tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
*Woe to you, scribes and Perushim, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets, and decorate the tombs of the righteous,
But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their tefillin broad, enlarge the tzitziyot of their garments,
He said to them, *You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
And the rest of the Jewish believers joined him in his hypocrisy; so that even Bar-Nabba was carried away with their hypocrisy.
But the LORD said to Shemu'el, *Don't look on his face, or on the height of his stature; because I have rejected him: for [the LORD sees] not as man sees; for man looks at the outward appearance, but the LORD looks at the heart.*