Matthew 23:28

So ye withoutforth seem just [or rightful] to men; but within ye be full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Wycliffe Modern Spelling

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, that be like to sepulchres whited [or made white], which withoutforth seem fair to men, (or who be like white tombs, which on the outside look beautiful to men); but within they be full of (the) bones of dead men, and of all filth.

29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build [the] sepulchres of (the) prophets, and make fair the burials of just men, (Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, who build the tombs of the prophets, and make the tombs of the righteous beautiful,)

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Cross References

1 Samuel 16:7And the Lord said to Samuel, Behold thou not his cheer (or Look thou not at his face), neither the highness of his stature; for I have cast him away, and I deem not by man’s sight; for man seeth those things that be open, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Jeremiah 17:9The heart of man is shrewd, and unsearchable; who shall know it? (Each person’s heart is depraved, and unknowable; who can understand it?)

Matthew 15:19For of the heart go out evil thoughts [or For out of the heart cometh evil thoughts], manslayings, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings (or false testimonies), blasphemies.

Mark 7:21For from within, of the heart of men come forth evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, manslayings,

Hebrews 4:12For the word of God is quick (or alive), and speedy in working, and more able to pierce than any twain-edged sword, and stretcheth forth [till] to the parting of the soul and of the spirit, and of the jointures and (the) marrows, and [it is the] deemer (or the judge) of thoughts, and of (the) intents of hearts.

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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