Bible verses about "hypocrisy" | Twentieth_Century

¹⁵ Beware of false Teachers--men who come to you in the guise of sheep, but at heart they are ravenous wolves.

² There is nothing, however covered up, which will not be uncovered, nor anything kept secret which will not become known.

⁹ He who says that he is in the Light, and yet hates his Brother, is in the Darkness even now.

⁵ and while they retain the outward form of religion, they will not allow it to influence them. Turn your back on such men as these.

¹⁴ My Brothers, what is the good of a man's saying that he has faith, if he does not prove it by actions? Can such faith save him? ¹⁵ Suppose some Brother or Sister should be in want of clothes and of daily bread, ¹⁶ And one of you were to say to them--"Go, and peace be with you; find warmth and food for yourselves," and yet you were not to give them the necessaries of life, what good would it be to them? ¹⁷ In just the same way faith, if not followed by actions, is, by itself, a lifeless thing. ¹⁸ Some one, indeed, may say--"You are a man of faith, and I am a man of action." "Then show me your faith," I reply, "apart from any actions, and I will show you my faith by my actions." ¹⁹ It is a part of your Faith, is it not, that there is one God? Good; yet even the demons have that faith, and tremble at the thought. ²⁰ Now do you really want to understand, you foolish man, how it is that faith without actions leads to nothing? ²¹ Look at our ancestor, Abraham. Was not it the result of his actions that he was pronounced righteous after he had offered his son, Isaac, on the altar? ²² You see how, in his case, faith and actions went together; that his faith was perfected as the result of his actions; ²³ And that in this way the words of Scripture came true-- "Abraham believed God, and that was regarded by God as righteousness," and "He was called the friend of God." ²⁴ You see, then, that it is as the result of his actions that a man is pronounced righteous, and not of his faith only. ²⁵ Was not it the same with the prostitute, Rahab? Was not it as the result of her actions that she was pronounced righteous, after she had welcomed the messengers and hastened them away by a different road? ²⁶ Exactly as a body is dead without a spirit, so faith is dead without actions.

⁴ The man who says 'I know Jesus,' but does not lay his commands to heart, is a liar, and the Truth has no place in him;

¹⁶ They profess to know God, but by their actions they disown him. They are degraded and self-willed; and, as far as anything good is concerned, they are utterly worthless.

⁷ Hypocrites! It was well said by Isaiah when he prophesied about you-- ⁸ 'This is a people that honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far removed from me; ⁹ But vainly do they worship me, For they teach but the precepts of men.'"

³ You who judge those that do such things and yet are yourself guilty of them-do you suppose that you of all men will escape God's judgment?

¹ Do not judge, that you may not be judged. ² For, just as you judge others, you will yourselves be judged, and the measure that you mete will be meted out to you. ³ And why do you look at the straw in your brother's eye, while you pay no attention at all to the beam in yours? ⁴ How will you say to your brother 'Let me take out the straw from your eye,' when all the time there is a beam in your own? ⁵ Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.

⁵ Hypocrite! Take out the beam from your own eye first, and then you will see clearly how to take out the straw from your brother's.

¹ Take care not to perform your religious duties in public in order to be seen by others; if you do, your Father who is in Heaven has no reward for you.

²⁶ When a man appears to be religious, yet does not bridle his tongue, but imposes upon his own conscience, that man's religious observances are valueless.

²⁰ If a man says 'I love God,' and yet hates his Brother, he is a liar; for the man who does not love his Brother, whom he has seen, cannot love God, whom he has not seen.