Matthew 23:28

So also you outwardly appear to men to be just, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

In Context

27Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitened sepulchers, which without appear beautiful, but within are full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.

29Alas for you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchers of the righteous,

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For from the heart come evil reasonings, murders, adulteries, lewd actions, thefts, false testimonies, impious words.

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed the purposes which are evil: adulteries, lewd actions, murders,

Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is living and powerful, and sharper than any two-edged sword, and pierces even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart.

Matthew Henry on Matthew 23:14-34

The Crimes of the Pharisees. 13 But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. 14 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation. 15 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make… Read the whole commentary →

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