Matthew 23:27

KJV1611 – Modern English

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

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  • Acts 23:3 : 3 Then Paul said to him, God shall strike you, you whitewashed wall! For do you sit to judge me according to the law, and command me to be struck contrary to the law?
  • Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.
  • Num 19:16 : 16 And whoever touches someone who is slain with a sword in the open fields, or a dead body, or a bone of a man, or a grave, shall be unclean seven days.
  • Isa 58:1-2 : 1 Cry aloud, do not hold back; lift up your voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins. 2 Yet they seek me daily and delight to know my ways, as a nation that practiced righteousness and did not forsake the ordinance of their God: they ask of me the ordinances of justice and take delight in approaching God.

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  • Matt 23:28-30
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    28Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

    29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous,

    30and say, If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.

  • Matt 23:23-26
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    23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

    24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

    26Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

  • Luke 11:39-48
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    39And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

    40Fools, did not he who made the outside make the inside also?

    41But rather give alms of such things as you have; and behold, all things are clean to you.

    42But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every kind of herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

    43Woe to you, Pharisees! for you love the best seats in the synagogues and greetings in the markets.

    44Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like graves which are not seen, and the men who walk over them are not aware of them.

    45Then one of the lawyers answered and said to him, Teacher, by saying this you reproach us also.

    46And he said, Woe to you also, lawyers! for you load men with burdens hard to bear, and you yourselves do not touch the burdens with one of your fingers.

    47Woe to you! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and your fathers killed them.

    48Truly you bear witness that you approve the deeds of your fathers: for they indeed killed them, and you build their tombs.

  • Matt 23:13-17
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    13But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for you neither go in yourselves, nor allow those who are entering to go in.

    14Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers: therefore you shall receive greater condemnation.

    15Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you travel land and sea to make one proselyte, and when he is made, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

    16Woe to you, blind guides, who say, Whoever swears by the temple, it is nothing; but whoever swears by the gold of the temple, he is obligated!

    17Fools and blind: for which is greater, the gold, or the temple that sanctifies the gold?

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    7You hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

  • Luke 16:15
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    15And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  • Mark 7:5-6
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    5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

    6He answered and said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

  • Matt 23:2-5
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    2saying, The scribes and the Pharisees sit in Moses' seat:

    3Therefore, whatever they ask you to observe, that observe and do; but do not do according to their works: for they say and do not.

    4For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

    5But all their works they do to be seen by men: they make broad their phylacteries and enlarge the borders of their garments,

  • Luke 12:1
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    1Meanwhile, when there was gathered together a vast multitude of people, so much that they trampled one upon another, he began to say to his disciples first, Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

  • Matt 7:5
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    5You hypocrite, first remove the plank from your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother's eye.

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    20For I say to you, that unless your righteousness exceeds the righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees, you will by no means enter the kingdom of heaven.

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    18But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

  • Luke 20:46-47
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    46Beware of the scribes, who desire to walk in long robes, and love greetings in the markets, and the best seats in the synagogues, and the places of honor at feasts;

    47Who devour widows' houses, and for a show make long prayers: they will receive greater condemnation.

  • Luke 6:25-26
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    25Woe to you that are full! for you shall hunger. Woe to you that laugh now! for you shall mourn and weep.

    26Woe to you, when all men shall speak well of you! for so did their fathers to the false prophets.

  • Matt 23:32-34
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    32Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers' guilt.

    33Serpents, brood of vipers, how can you escape the condemnation of hell?

    34Therefore, indeed, I send to you prophets, wise men, and scribes: some of them you will kill and crucify, and some of them you will scourge in your synagogues, and persecute from city to city:

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    23All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

  • Mark 12:40
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    40who devour widows' houses, and for a pretense make long prayers. These will receive greater condemnation.

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    1Then came to Jesus scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem, saying,

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    56You hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky and the earth; but how is it that you do not discern this time?

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    42Or how can you say to your brother, Brother, let me pull out the speck that is in your eye, when you yourself do not see the beam that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, cast out first the beam out of your own eye, and then you shall see clearly to pull out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

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    16Moreover, when you fast, do not be like the hypocrites, with a sad countenance, for they disfigure their faces that they may appear to men to fast. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.

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    15Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep's clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.

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    23But if your eye is bad, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is that darkness!

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    8For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do.