Matthew 23:28
So also, you certainly appear to men outwardly to be just. But inwardly you are filled with hypocrisy and iniquity.
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1 Samuel 16:7And the Lord said to Samuel: “You should not look with favor on his face, nor on the height of his stature. For I have rejected him. Neither do I judge by the appearance of a man. For man sees those things that are apparent, but the Lord beholds the heart.”
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is depraved above all things, and it is unsearchable, who can know it?
Matthew 15:19For from the heart go out evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies.
Mark 7:21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Hebrews 4:12For the Word of God is living and effective: more piercing than any two-edged sword, reaching to the division even between the soul and the spirit, even between the joints and the marrow, and so it discerns the thoughts and intentions 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 →