Matthew 23:27
“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
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- Acts 23:3 : 3 Then Paul said to him,“God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Do you sit there judging me according to the law, and in violation of the law you order me to be struck?”
- Luke 11:44 : 44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
- Num 19:16 : 16 And whoever touches the body of someone killed with a sword in the open fields, or the body of someone who died of natural causes, or a human bone, or a grave, will be unclean seven days.
- Isa 58:1-2 : 1 The Lord Desires Genuine Devotion“Shout loudly! Don’t be quiet! Yell as loud as a trumpet! Confront my people with their rebellious deeds; confront Jacob’s family with their sin! 2 They seek me day after day; they want to know my requirements, like a nation that does what is right and does not reject the law of their God. They ask me for just decrees; they want to be near God.
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- Matt 23:28-303 verses89%
28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
30 And you say,‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors, we would not have participated with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
- Matt 23:23-264 verses87%
23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.
24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel!
25 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
- Luke 11:39-4810 verses85%
39 But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
40 You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?
41 But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
42 “But woe to you Pharisees! You give a tenth of your mint, rue, and every herb, yet you neglect justice and love for God! But you should have done these things without neglecting the others.
43 Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!
44 Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
45 One of the experts in religious law answered him,“Teacher, when you say these things you insult us too.”
46 But Jesus replied,“Woe to you experts in religious law as well! You load people down with burdens difficult to bear, yet you yourselves refuse to touch the burdens with even one of your fingers!
47 Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
48 So you testify that you approve of the deeds of your ancestors, because they killed the prophets and you build their tombs!
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13 “But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
- Matt 23:15-173 verses76%
15 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say,‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’
17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
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7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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15 But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
- Mark 7:5-62 verses72%
5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- Matt 23:2-54 verses71%
2 “The experts in the law and the Pharisees sit on Moses’ seat.
3 Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
4 They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.
5 They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
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1 Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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20 For I tell you, unless your righteousness goes beyond that of the experts in the law and the Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven!
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18 But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said,“Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?
- Luke 20:46-472 verses68%
46 “Beware of the experts in the law. They like walking around in long robes, and they love elaborate greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at banquets.
47 They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. They will receive a more severe punishment.”
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25 “Woe to you who are well satisfied with food now, for you will be hungry.“Woe to you who laugh now, for you will mourn and weep.
26 “Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
- Matt 23:32-343 verses68%
32 Fill up then the measure of your ancestors!
33 You snakes, you offspring of vipers! How will you escape being condemned to hell?
34 “For this reason I am sending you prophets and wise men and experts in the law, some of whom you will kill and crucify, and some you will flog in your synagogues and pursue from town to town,
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23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
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40 They devour widows’ property, and as a show make long prayers. These men will receive a more severe punishment.”
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1 Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,
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56 You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?
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16 Proper Fasting“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
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15 A Tree and Its Fruit“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.
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23 But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
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8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”