New Testament · SCRIPTURE
Matthew 23:28
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In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
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Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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ASVAmerican Standard Version
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
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Thus also on the outside you⁺ indeed appear righteous to men, but on the inside you⁺ are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB
Matthew 23
26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and dish, so that the outside may become clean as well.
27 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.
28 In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.
29 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.
30 And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’
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