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Want to know what the Bible says about Hypocrisy? Here are 304 Bible verses about Hypocrisy from the Old and New Testaments of the Holy Bible, New International Version (NIV), sorted from the most relevant to the least relevant.

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Matthew 6:16 NIV
“When you fast, do not look somber as the hypocrites do, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly I tell you, they have received their reward in full.
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Matthew 23:13 NIV
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door of the kingdom of heaven in people’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
179
Isaiah 29:13 NIV
The Lord says:
“These people come near to me with their mouth
    and honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
Their worship of me
    is based on merely human rules they have been taught.
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Psalm 101:7 NIV
No one who practices deceit
    will dwell in my house;
no one who speaks falsely
    will stand in my presence.
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Matthew 23:27 NIV
“Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of the bones of the dead and everything unclean.
171
Luke 16:15 NIV
He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight.
165
Psalm 55:21 NIV
His talk is smooth as butter,
    yet war is in his heart;
his words are more soothing than oil,
    yet they are drawn swords.
162
Galatians 6:3 NIV
If anyone thinks they are something when they are not, they deceive themselves.
162
Matthew 22:18 NIV
But Jesus, knowing their evil intent, said, “You hypocrites, why are you trying to trap me?
160
Proverbs 11:9 NIV
With their mouths the godless destroy their neighbors,
    but through knowledge the righteous escape.
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