Matthew 15:7
Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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- Matt 7:5 : 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- Matt 23:23-29 : 23 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others. 24 Blind guides! You strain out a gnat yet swallow a camel! 25 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too! 27 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean. 28 In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. 29 “Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
- Mark 7:6 : 6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- Acts 28:25-27 : 25 So they began to leave, unable to agree among themselves, after Paul made one last statement:“The Holy Spirit spoke rightly to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah 26 when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive. 27 For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
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- Mark 7:5-139 verses88%
5The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
6He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
8Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
9He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
10For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
11But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God),
12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
- Matt 15:8-103 verses81%
8‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,
9and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.
- Matt 15:1-66 verses80%
1Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,
2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
5But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
6he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
- Matt 23:25-295 verses78%
25“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
27“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs that look beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and of everything unclean.
28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
29“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves of the righteous.
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15But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
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18But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said,“Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?
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17This fulfilled what was spoken by the prophet Isaiah:
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15“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert, and when you get one, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves!
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56You hypocrites! You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how to interpret the present time?
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5You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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26“Woe to you when all people speak well of you, for their ancestors did the same things to the false prophets.
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13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
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14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
- Luke 11:43-442 verses72%
43Woe to you Pharisees! You love the best seats in the synagogues and elaborate greetings in the marketplaces!
44Woe to you! You are like unmarked graves, and people walk over them without realizing it!”
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47Woe to you! You build the tombs of the prophets whom your ancestors killed.
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13“But woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven! For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.
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41Isaiah said these things because he saw Christ’s glory, and spoke about him.
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16Proper Fasting“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
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23“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth of mint, dill, and cumin, yet you neglect what is more important in the law– justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You should have done these things without neglecting the others.
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7If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
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52Which of the prophets did your ancestors not persecute? They killed those who foretold long ago the coming of the Righteous One, whose betrayers and murderers you have now become!
- Matt 6:1-22 verses71%
1Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
2Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
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1Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to his disciples,“Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
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15Then the Lord answered him,“You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall, and lead it to water?
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3Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
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15A Tree and Its Fruit“Watch out for false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing but inwardly are voracious wolves.
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46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?
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17Then he began to teach them and said,“Is it not written:‘My house will be called a house of prayer for all nations’? But you have turned it into a den of robbers!”