Matthew 23:28

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

Revised King James 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

27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but within are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.

29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because you build the tombs of the prophets, and adorn the sepulchres of the righteous,

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Cross References

Matthew 15:19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immorality, thefts, false witness, slanders:

Mark 7:21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,

Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is alive, and active, and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even to the division of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and discerning 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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