100 Bible Verses about Be Not Like The Hypocrites

Matthew 7:5 ESV / 14 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 6:5 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 12 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 10 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

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.

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 22:18 ESV / 7 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But Jesus, aware of their malice, said, “Why put me to the test, you hypocrites?

1 John 3:10 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this it is evident who are the children of God, and who are the children of the devil: whoever does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor is the one who does not love his brother.

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 6 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 23:23 ESV / 6 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 6:1-34 ESV / 6 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing, so that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you. “And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites. For they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward. ...

1 John 2:4 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever says “I know him” but does not keep his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him,

James 3:17 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the wisdom from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, open to reason, full of mercy and good fruits, impartial and sincere.

1 Timothy 4:2 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Through the insincerity of liars whose consciences are seared,

Matthew 24:51 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And will cut him in pieces and put him with the hypocrites. In that place there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 5 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 6:1 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven.

Isaiah 32:6 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the fool speaks folly, and his heart is busy with iniquity, to practice ungodliness, to utter error concerning the Lord, to leave the craving of the hungry unsatisfied, and to deprive the thirsty of drink.

Job 15:34 ESV / 5 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the company of the godless is barren, and fire consumes the tents of bribery.

1 John 4:20 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen cannot love God whom he has not seen.

1 John 1:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

1 Peter 2:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So put away all malice and all deceit and hypocrisy and envy and all slander.

James 1:26-27 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

Hebrews 10:1 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For since the law has but a shadow of the good things to come instead of the true form of these realities, it can never, by the same sacrifices that are continually offered every year, make perfect those who draw near.

2 Timothy 3:5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people.

1 Timothy 2:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Likewise also that women should adorn themselves in respectable apparel, with modesty and self-control, not with braided hair and gold or pearls or costly attire,

2 Thessalonians 3:6 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you keep away from any brother who is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.

2 Thessalonians 2:14-15 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

To this he called you through our gospel, so that you may obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. So then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the traditions that you were taught by us, either by our spoken word or by our letter.

Colossians 1:1-29 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus by the will of God, and Timothy our brother, To the saints and faithful brothers in Christ at Colossae: Grace to you and peace from God our Father. We always thank God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, when we pray for you, since we heard of your faith in Christ Jesus and of the love that you have for all the saints, because of the hope laid up for you in heaven. Of this you have heard before in the word of the truth, the gospel, ...

Ephesians 5:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Take no part in the unfruitful works of darkness, but instead expose them.

2 Corinthians 11:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And no wonder, for even Satan disguises himself as an angel of light.

1 Corinthians 15:1-4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now I would remind you, brothers, of the gospel I preached to you, which you received, in which you stand, and by which you are being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you—unless you believed in vain. For I delivered to you as of first importance what I also received: that Christ died for our sins in accordance with the Scriptures, that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day in accordance with the Scriptures,

1 Corinthians 11:1-2 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Be imitators of me, as I am of Christ. Now I commend you because you remember me in everything and maintain the traditions even as I delivered them to you.

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

For all have sinned and fall short of the glory of God,

Acts 20:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Pay careful attention to yourselves and to all the flock, in which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to care for the church of God, which he obtained with his own blood.

John 3:16 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.

John 3:3 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

John 3:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. This man came to Jesus by night and said to him, “Rabbi, we know that you are a teacher come from God, for no one can do these signs that you do unless God is with him.” Jesus answered him, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born again he cannot see the kingdom of God.” Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? Can he enter a second time into his mother's womb and be born?” Jesus answered, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless one is born of water and the Spirit, he cannot enter the kingdom of God.

Luke 18:11 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

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.

Luke 17:21 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Nor will they say, ‘Look, here it is!’ or ‘There!’ for behold, the kingdom of God is in the midst of you.”

Luke 12:1 ESV / 4 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.

Luke 6:42 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How can you say to your brother, ‘Brother, let me take out the speck that is in your eye,’ when you yourself do not see the log that is in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take out the speck that is in your brother's eye.

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

But, knowing their hypocrisy, he said to them, “Why put me to the test? Bring me a denarius and let me look at it.”

Mark 7:1-37 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem, they saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed. (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders, 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.) 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 23:29 ESV / 4 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 23:28 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:25 ESV / 4 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 23:14 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:13-15 ESV / 4 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. 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.

Matthew 15:7-9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: “‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Matthew 7:3-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Matthew 7:1-5 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye.

Isaiah 29:13 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,

Proverbs 11:9 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

With his mouth the godless man would destroy his neighbor, but by knowledge the righteous are delivered.

Psalm 26:4 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I do not sit with men of falsehood, nor do I consort with hypocrites.

Job 34:30 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That a godless man should not reign, that he should not ensnare the people.

Genesis 1:26 ESV / 4 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness. And let them have dominion over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the heavens and over the livestock and over all the earth and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.”

1 John 2:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Whoever says he is in the light and hates his brother is still in darkness.

James 1:26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless.

James 1:22-25 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like. But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing.

Hebrews 10:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And by that will we have been sanctified through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once for all.

Titus 1:10-16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For there are many who are insubordinate, empty talkers and deceivers, especially those of the circumcision party. They must be silenced, since they are upsetting whole families by teaching for shameful gain what they ought not to teach. One of the Cretans, a prophet of their own, said, “Cretans are always liars, evil beasts, lazy gluttons.” This testimony is true. Therefore rebuke them sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth. ...

1 Timothy 2:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For there is one God, and there is one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

1 Corinthians 15:10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But by the grace of God I am what I am, and his grace toward me was not in vain. On the contrary, I worked harder than any of them, though it was not I, but the grace of God that is with me.

Romans 12:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Let love be genuine. Abhor what is evil; hold fast to what is good.

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

Do you suppose, O man—you who judge those who practice such things and yet do them yourself—that you will escape the judgment of God?

John 3:15 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

That whoever believes in him may have eternal life.

Luke 17:9 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Does he thank the servant because he did what was commanded?

Luke 12:54-56 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also said to the crowds, “When you see a cloud rising in the west, you say at once, ‘A shower is coming.’ And so it happens. And when you see the south wind blowing, you say, ‘There will be scorching heat,’ and it happens. You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of earth and sky, but why do you not know how to interpret the present time?

Luke 12:1-3 ESV / 3 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. Nothing is covered up that will not be revealed, or hidden that will not be known. Therefore whatever you have said in the dark shall be heard in the light, and what you have whispered in private rooms shall be proclaimed on the housetops.

Mark 7:16 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:27-28 ESV / 3 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. So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 23:17 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You blind fools! For which is greater, the gold or the temple that has made the gold sacred?

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 7:1-29 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Judge not, that you be not judged. For with the judgment you pronounce you will be judged, and with the measure you use it will be measured to you. Why do you see the speck that is in your brother's eye, but do not notice the log that is in your own eye? Or how can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when there is the log in your own eye? You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brother's eye. ...

Matthew 5:28 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But I say to you that everyone who looks at a woman with lustful intent has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

Isaiah 65:5 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Who say, “Keep to yourself, do not come near me, for I am too holy for you.” These are a smoke in my nostrils, a fire that burns all the day.

Proverbs 26:23-26 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Like the glaze covering an earthen vessel are fervent lips with an evil heart. Whoever hates disguises himself with his lips and harbors deceit in his heart; when he speaks graciously, believe him not, for there are seven abominations in his heart; though his hatred be covered with deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Psalm 52:4 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You love all words that devour, O deceitful tongue.

Job 36:13 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“The godless in heart cherish anger; they do not cry for help when he binds them.

Job 27:8-10 ESV / 3 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For what is the hope of the godless when God cuts him off, when God takes away his life? Will God hear his cry when distress comes upon him? Will he take delight in the Almighty? Will he call upon God at all times?

Revelation 3:15-18 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘I know your works: you are neither cold nor hot. Would that you were either cold or hot! So, because you are lukewarm, and neither hot nor cold, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, I am rich, I have prospered, and I need nothing, not realizing that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked. I counsel you to buy from me gold refined by fire, so that you may be rich, and white garments so that you may clothe yourself and the shame of your nakedness may not be seen, and salve to anoint your eyes, so that you may see.

Revelation 2:9 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“‘I know your tribulation and your poverty (but you are rich) and the slander of those who say that they are Jews and are not, but are a synagogue of Satan.

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

“‘I know your works, your toil and your patient endurance, and how you cannot bear with those who are evil, but have tested those who call themselves apostles and are not, and found them to be false.

Revelation 1:1-20 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, who bore witness to the word of God and to the testimony of Jesus Christ, even to all that he saw. Blessed is the one who reads aloud the words of this prophecy, and blessed are those who hear, and who keep what is written in it, for the time is near. John to the seven churches that are in Asia: Grace to you and peace from him who is and who was and who is to come, and from the seven spirits who are before his throne, and from Jesus Christ the faithful witness, the firstborn of the dead, and the ruler of kings on earth. To him who loves us and has freed us from our sins by his blood ...

Jude 1:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

These are grumblers, malcontents, following their own sinful desires; they are loud-mouthed boasters, showing favoritism to gain advantage.

Jude 1:12 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted;

Jude 1:11 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to them! For they walked in the way of Cain and abandoned themselves for the sake of gain to Balaam's error and perished in Korah's rebellion.

1 John 3:16-17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

By this we know love, that he laid down his life for us, and we ought to lay down our lives for the brothers. But if anyone has the world's goods and sees his brother in need, yet closes his heart against him, how does God's love abide in him?

1 John 1:10 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we say we have not sinned, we make him a liar, and his word is not in us.

1 John 1:6 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

If we say we have fellowship with him while we walk in darkness, we lie and do not practice the truth.

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

And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

2 Peter 2:1-3 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But false prophets also arose among the people, just as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, even denying the Master who bought them, bringing upon themselves swift destruction. And many will follow their sensuality, and because of them the way of truth will be blasphemed. And in their greed they will exploit you with false words. Their condemnation from long ago is not idle, and their destruction is not asleep.

1 Peter 2:16 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Live as people who are free, not using your freedom as a cover-up for evil, but living as servants of God.

James 4:17 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So whoever knows the right thing to do and fails to do it, for him it is sin.

James 4:8 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-minded.

James 2:19 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You believe that God is one; you do well. Even the demons believe—and shudder!

James 2:14-26 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

What good is it, my brothers, if someone says he has faith but does not have works? Can that faith save him? If a brother or sister is poorly clothed and lacking in daily food, and one of you says to them, “Go in peace, be warmed and filled,” without giving them the things needed for the body, what good is that? So also faith by itself, if it does not have works, is dead. But someone will say, “You have faith and I have works.” Show me your faith apart from your works, and I will show you my faith by my works. ...

James 1:25-27 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the one who looks into the perfect law, the law of liberty, and perseveres, being no hearer who forgets but a doer who acts, he will be blessed in his doing. If anyone thinks he is religious and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this person's religion is worthless. Religion that is pure and undefiled before God the Father is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world.

James 1:22-24 ESV / 2 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks intently at his natural face in a mirror. For he looks at himself and goes away and at once forgets what he was like.