Hypocrites
62 passages listed in Nave’s Topical Bible and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook. Verse text: Berean Standard Bible; links open in your translation.
42 sections
- Absalom
- Ananias
- Apparently Zealous in the Things of God
- Beware the Principles of
- Cain
- Censorious
- Christ Knew and Detected
- Covetous
- Destroy Others by Slander
- Devouring Widows' Houses
- Exact in Minor, but Neglecting Important Duties
- Fearfulness Shall Surprise
- Glorying in Appearance Only
- God Has No Pleasure In
- God Knows and Detects
- Having but a Form of Godliness
- Heap up Wrath
- Herodians
- Hope of Perishes
- Illustrated
- Joy of, but for a Moment
- Judas
- Loving Pre-Eminence
- Ostentatious
- Pharisees
- Professing but not Practising
- Punishment of
- Regarding Tradition More than the Word of God
- Seeking Only Outward Purity
- Self-Righteous
- Shall not Come Before God
- Simon
- Spirit of, Hinders Growth in Grace
- The Apostasy to Abound With
- The Jews
- Trusting in Privileges
- Using but Lip-Worship
- Vile
- Wilfully Blind
- Woe To
- Worship of, not Acceptable to God
- Zealous in Making Proselytes
Absalom
- 2 Samuel 15:7–8 After four years had passed, Absalom said to the king, “Please let me go to Hebron to fulfill a vow I have made to the LORD. …
Ananias
- Acts 5:1–8 Now a man named Ananias, together with his wife Sapphira, also sold a piece of property. …
Apparently Zealous in the Things of God
- Isaiah 58:2 For day after day they seek Me and delight to know My ways, like a nation that does what is right and does not forsake the justice of their God. They ask Me for righteous judgments; they delight in the nearness of God.”
Beware the Principles of
- Luke 12:1 In the meantime, a crowd of many thousands had gathered, so that they were trampling one another. Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Cain
- Genesis 4:3 So in the course of time, Cain brought some of the fruit of the soil as an offering to the LORD,
Censorious
- Matthew 7:3–5 Why do you look at the speck in your brother’s eye but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? …
- Luke 13:14–15 But the synagogue leader was indignant that Jesus had healed on the Sabbath. “There are six days for work,” he told the crowd. “So come and be healed on those days and not on the Sabbath.” …
Christ Knew and Detected
- Matthew 22:18 But Jesus knew their evil intent and said, “You hypocrites, why are you testing Me?
Covetous
- Ezekiel 33:31 So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain.
- 2 Peter 2:3 In their greed, these false teachers will exploit you with deceptive words. The longstanding verdict against them remains in force, and their destruction does not sleep.
Destroy Others by Slander
- Proverbs 11:9 With his mouth the ungodly man destroys his neighbor, but through knowledge the righteous are rescued.
Devouring Widows' Houses
Exact in Minor, but Neglecting Important Duties
- Matthew 23:23–24 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, …
Fearfulness Shall Surprise
- Isaiah 33:14 The sinners in Zion are afraid; trembling grips the ungodly: “Who of us can dwell with a consuming fire? Who of us can dwell with everlasting flames?”
Glorying in Appearance Only
- 2 Corinthians 5:12 We are not commending ourselves to you again. Instead, we are giving you an occasion to be proud of us, so that you can answer those who take pride in appearances rather than in the heart.
God Has No Pleasure In
- Isaiah 9:17 Therefore the Lord takes no pleasure in their young men; He has no compassion on their fatherless and widows. For every one of them is godless and wicked, and every mouth speaks folly. Despite all this, His anger is not turned …
God Knows and Detects
- Isaiah 29:15–16 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?” …
Having but a Form of Godliness
- 2 Timothy 3:5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
Heap up Wrath
- Job 36:13 The godless in heart harbor resentment; even when He binds them, they do not cry for help.
Herodians
- Mark 12:13 Later, they sent some of the Pharisees and Herodians to catch Jesus in His words.
- Mark 12:15 But Jesus saw through their hypocrisy and said, “Why are you testing Me? Bring Me a denarius to inspect.”
Hope of Perishes
- Job 8:13 Such is the destiny of all who forget God; so the hope of the godless will perish.
- Job 27:8–9 For what is the hope of the godless when he is cut off, when God takes away his life? …
Illustrated
- Matthew 23:27–28 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. …
- Luke 11:44 Woe to you! For you are like unmarked graves, which men walk over without even noticing.”
Joy of, but for a Moment
- Job 20:5 the triumph of the wicked has been brief and the joy of the godless momentary?
Judas
- Matthew 26:49 Going directly to Jesus, he said, “Greetings, Rabbi!” and kissed Him.
Loving Pre-Eminence
- Matthew 23:6–7 They love the places of honor at banquets, the chief seats in the synagogues, …
Ostentatious
- Matthew 5:2 and He began to teach them, saying:
- Matthew 5:5 Blessed are the meek, for they will inherit the earth.
- Matthew 5:16 In the same way, let your light shine before men, that they may see your good deeds and glorify your Father in heaven.
- Matthew 23:5 All their deeds are done for men to see. They broaden their phylacteries and lengthen their tassels.
Pharisees
- Matthew 16:3 and in the morning, ‘Today it will be stormy, for the sky is red and overcast.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but not the signs of the times.
Professing but not Practising
- Ezekiel 33:31–32 So My people come to you as usual, sit before you, and hear your words; but they do not put them into practice. Although they express love with their mouths, their hearts pursue dishonest gain. …
- Matthew 23:3 So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.
- Romans 2:17–23 Now you, if you call yourself a Jew; if you rely on the law and boast in God; …
Punishment of
- Job 15:34 For the company of the godless will be barren, and fire will consume the tents of bribery.
- Isaiah 10:6 I will send him against a godless nation; I will dispatch him against a people destined for My rage, to take spoils and seize plunder, and to trample them down like clay in the streets.
- Jeremiah 42:20 For you have deceived yourselves by sending me to the LORD your God, saying, ‘Pray to the LORD our God on our behalf, and as for all that the LORD our God says, tell it to us and we will do it.’
- Jeremiah 42:22 Now therefore, know for sure that by sword and famine and plague you will die in the place where you desire to go to reside.”
- Matthew 24:51 Then he will cut him to pieces and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
Regarding Tradition More than the Word of God
- Matthew 15:1–3 Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked, …
Seeking Only Outward Purity
- Luke 11:39 Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
Self-Righteous
- Isaiah 65:5 They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Luke 18:11 The Pharisee stood by himself and prayed, ‘God, I thank You that I am not like other men — swindlers, evildoers, adulterers — or even like this tax collector.
Shall not Come Before God
- Job 13:16 Moreover, this will be my salvation, for no godless man can appear before Him.
Simon
- Acts 8:13–23 Even Simon himself believed and was baptized. He followed Philip closely and was astounded by the great signs and miracles he observed. …
Spirit of, Hinders Growth in Grace
- 1 Peter 2:1 Rid yourselves, therefore, of all malice, deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and slander.
The Apostasy to Abound With
- 1 Timothy 4:2 influenced by the hypocrisy of liars, whose consciences are seared with a hot iron.
The Jews
- Jeremiah 3:10 Yet in spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to Me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the LORD.
Trusting in Privileges
- Jeremiah 7:4 Do not trust in deceptive words, saying: ‘This is the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD, the temple of the LORD.’
- Matthew 3:9 And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father.’ For I tell you that out of these stones God can raise up children for Abraham.
Using but Lip-Worship
- Isaiah 29:13 Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.
- Matthew 15:8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Vile
- Isaiah 32:6 For a fool speaks foolishness; his mind plots iniquity. He practices ungodliness and speaks falsely about the LORD; he leaves the hungry empty and deprives the thirsty of drink.
Wilfully Blind
- Matthew 23:17 You blind fools! Which is greater: the gold, or the temple that makes it sacred?
- Matthew 23:19 You blind men! Which is greater: the gift, or the altar that makes it sacred?
- Matthew 23:26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
Woe To
- Isaiah 29:15 Woe to those who dig deep to hide their plans from the LORD. In darkness they do their works and say, “Who sees us, and who will know?”
- Matthew 23:13 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.
Worship of, not Acceptable to God
- Isaiah 1:11–15 “What good to Me is your multitude of sacrifices?” says the LORD. “I am full from the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of well-fed cattle; I take no delight in the blood of bulls and lambs and goats. …
- Isaiah 58:3–5 “Why have we fasted, and You have not seen? Why have we humbled ourselves, and You have not noticed?” “Behold, on the day of your fast, you do as you please, and you oppress all your workers. …
- Matthew 15:9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
Zealous in Making Proselytes
- Matthew 23:15 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
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Topics: Nave’s Topical Bible (1896) and Torrey’s New Topical Textbook (1897), public domain, via the Berean Bible topical index.