Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,p>

<p class="bodytext">But Jesus realized their evil intentions and said, &#8220;Hypocrites! Why are you testing me?

You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother&#8217;s eye.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> 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.<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You<n id="2" /> build tombs for the prophets and decorate the graves<n id="3" /> of the righteous.

and will cut him in two,<n id="1" /> and assign him a place with the hypocrites, where there will be weeping and gnashing of teeth.p>

You hypocrites!<n id="1" /> You know how to interpret the appearance of the earth and the sky, but how can you not know how<n id="2" /> to interpret the present time?p>

Thus whenever you do charitable giving,<n id="1" /> do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues<n id="2" /> and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> they have their reward.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;Whenever you pray, do not be like the hypocrites, because they love to pray while standing in synagogues<n id="1" /> and on street corners so that people can see them. Truly I say to you, they have their reward.

<t /><p class="bodytext">&#8220;When<n id="1" /> you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive<n id="2" /> so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth,<n id="3" /> they have their reward.

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;But woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites!<n id="2" /> You keep locking people out of the kingdom of heaven!<n id="3" /> For you neither enter nor permit those trying to enter to go in.p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You cross land and sea to make one convert,<n id="2" /> and when you get one,<n id="3" /> you make him twice as much a child of hell<n id="4" /> as yourselves!p>

He said to them, &#8220;Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:p> <p class="otpoetry">&#8216;<b><i>This people honors me with their lips,i>b>p> <p class="otpoetry"><b><i>but their hearti>b><n id="1" /> <i><b>is far from meb>.i>p>

Then the Lord answered him,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You hypocrites! Does not each of you on the Sabbath untie his ox or his donkey from its stall,<n id="2" /> and lead it to water?<n id="3" />

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Woe to you, experts in the law<n id="1" /> and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You give a tenth<n id="2" /> of mint, dill, and cumin,<n id="3" /> yet you neglect what is more important in the law &#8211; justice, mercy, and faithfulness! You<n id="4" /> should have done these things without neglecting the others.

How can you say to your brother, &#8216;Brother, let me remove the speck from your eye,&#8217; while you yourself don&#8217;t see the beam in your own? You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother&#8217;s eye.p>