Bible Verses

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

Similarly, you seem religious to others, but inside you’re full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, beautiful on the outside, but inside, there are only dead bones and uncleanness.

Blind Pharisee! Clean the inside first, and then the outside will be clean as well.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You fill the plate and the cup with theft and violence, then pronounce a blessing over them.

Blind guides! You remove a mosquito but swallow a camel.

Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You carefully avoid neglecting the mint, anise, and cumin seeds when you demand the tenth of everything, but then, you forget what is most fundamental in the law: justice, mercy, and faith! You should have practiced these things without neglecting the others.

Whoever swears by heaven is swearing by God’s throne and by Him who sits on it.

Whoever swears by the temple is also swearing by God, who dwells in the temple.

Whoever swears by the altar is also swearing by everything on it.