100 Bible Verses about Pharisees Sourdough

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 11 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 8 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Acts 23:8 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Luke 12:1 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Matthew 23:13 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Matthew 23:2 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,

Matthew 9:14 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Acts 23:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

Acts 15:5 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”

Matthew 21:45 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.

Matthew 16:12 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Matthew 16:6 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 9:11 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 3:7 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Luke 11:39 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Mark 7:3 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“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.

Matthew 23:25 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 16:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 16:1-28 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven. He answered them, “When it is evening, you say, ‘It will be fair weather, for the sky is red.’ And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times. An evil and adulterous generation seeks for a sign, but no sign will be given to it except the sign of Jonah.” So he left them and departed. When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread. ...

Matthew 12:38 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”

Matthew 12:24 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

Matthew 12:14 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 13:31 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”

Luke 11:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” ...

Luke 7:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

Mark 10:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Mark 8:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Mark 7:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

Matthew 23:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues

Matthew 22:15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”

Matthew 15:12 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

Matthew 15:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

Matthew 12:2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, “Look, your disciples are doing what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath.”

Matthew 5:1-48 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Seeing the crowds, he went up on the mountain, and when he sat down, his disciples came to him. And he opened his mouth and taught them, saying: “Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. “Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted. “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth. ...

Hebrews 13:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever.

Romans 12:2 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewal of your mind, that by testing you may discern what is the will of God, what is good and acceptable and perfect.

Acts 23:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

Acts 17:10-11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Berea, and when they arrived they went into the Jewish synagogue. Now these Jews were more noble than those in Thessalonica; they received the word with all eagerness, examining the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.

John 11:47 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

John 3:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

John 3:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews.

Luke 20:46-47 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 18:12 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

Luke 16:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisees, who were lovers of money, heard all these things, and they ridiculed him.

Luke 14:1 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One Sabbath, when he went to dine at the house of a ruler of the Pharisees, they were watching him carefully.

Luke 11:43 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you Pharisees! For you love the best seat in the synagogues and greetings in the marketplaces.

Luke 7:36 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.

Luke 6:7 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, so that they might find a reason to accuse him.

Luke 5:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

Luke 5:30 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and their scribes grumbled at his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with tax collectors and sinners?”

Mark 7:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

Mark 7:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. And there are many other traditions that they observe, such as the washing of cups and pots and copper vessels and dining couches.)

Mark 3:6 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

Matthew 23:29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

Matthew 23:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,

Matthew 23:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

Matthew 22:41 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now while the Pharisees were gathered together, Jesus asked them a question,

Matthew 22:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the Pharisees heard that he had silenced the Sadducees, they gathered together.

Matthew 16:11 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How is it that you fail to understand that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 16:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.

Matthew 16:3 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

Matthew 13:33 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He told them another parable. “The kingdom of heaven is like leaven that a woman took and hid in three measures of flour, till it was all leavened.”

Matthew 9:34 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Matthew 5:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called sons of God.

Revelation 20:11-15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then I saw a great white throne and him who was seated on it. From his presence earth and sky fled away, and no place was found for them. And I saw the dead, great and small, standing before the throne, and books were opened. Then another book was opened, which is the book of life. And the dead were judged by what was written in the books, according to what they had done. And the sea gave up the dead who were in it, Death and Hades gave up the dead who were in them, and they were judged, each one of them, according to what they had done. Then Death and Hades were thrown into the lake of fire. This is the second death, the lake of fire. And if anyone's name was not found written in the book of life, he was thrown into the lake of fire.

Revelation 20:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he seized the dragon, that ancient serpent, who is the devil and Satan, and bound him for a thousand years,

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

James 5:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the prayer of faith will save the one who is sick, and the Lord will raise him up. And if he has committed sins, he will be forgiven.

Hebrews 13:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do not neglect to show hospitality to strangers, for thereby some have entertained angels unawares.

Hebrews 6:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And of instruction about washings, the laying on of hands, the resurrection of the dead, and eternal judgment.

2 Timothy 3:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good,

2 Timothy 2:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

1 Timothy 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For kings and all who are in high positions, that we may lead a peaceful and quiet life, godly and dignified in every way.

Colossians 2:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That their hearts may be encouraged, being knit together in love, to reach all the riches of full assurance of understanding and the knowledge of God's mystery, which is Christ,

Philippians 3:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Look out for the dogs, look out for the evildoers, look out for those who mutilate the flesh.

Romans 14:10-12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Why do you pass judgment on your brother? Or you, why do you despise your brother? For we will all stand before the judgment seat of God; for it is written, “As I live, says the Lord, every knee shall bow to me, and every tongue shall confess to God.” So then each of us will give an account of himself to God.

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Acts 26:5 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.

Acts 23:6-8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.” And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Acts 17:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Paul went in, as was his custom, and on three Sabbath days he reasoned with them from the Scriptures,

John 18:3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So Judas, having procured a band of soldiers and some officers from the chief priests and the Pharisees, went there with lanterns and torches and weapons.

John 14:15 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“If you love me, you will keep my commandments.

John 12:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.

John 11:46 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But some of them went to the Pharisees and told them what Jesus had done.

John 9:40 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

John 9:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

John 9:13 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.

John 8:2 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and he sat down and taught them.

John 7:48 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?