If anyone says “I love God,” but keeps on hating his brother, he is a liar; for if he doesn’t love his brother who is right there in front of him, how can he love God whom he has never seen?
I John 4:20 (TLB)
Should you say, ‘Friend, let me help you get that speck out of your eye,’ when you can’t even see because of the board in your own?
Matthew 7:4 (TLB)
Hypocrite! First get rid of the board. Then you can see to help your brother.
Matthew 7:5 (TLB)
Anyone who says he is a Christian but doesn’t control his sharp tongue is just fooling himself, and his religion isn’t worth much.
James 1:26 (TLB)
You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote, ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is a farce, for they teach man-made ideas as commands from God.’
Matthew 15:7-9 (NLT)
Some of you accuse others of doing wrong. But there is no excuse for what you do. When you judge others, you condemn yourselves, because you are guilty of doing the very same things.
Romans 2:1 (CEV)
We know that God is right to judge everyone who behaves in this way. Do you really think God won’t punish you, when you behave exactly like the people you accuse?
Romans 2:2-3 (CEV)
They will betray their friends, be reckless, be puffed up with pride and love pleasure rather than God.
II Timothy 3:4 (NLT)
They will act religious, but they will reject the power that could make them godly. Stay away from people like that.
II Timothy 3:5 (NLT)
Dear brothers, what’s the use of saying that you have faith and are Christians if you aren’t proving it by helping other? Will that kind of faith save anyone?
James 2:14 (TLB)
They say they know God, but by the way they act, they show that they do not. They are sinful people. They will not obey and are of no use for any good work.
Titus 1:16 (NLV)
Someone may say, ‘I am a Christian; I am on my way to heaven; I belong to Christ.’ But if he doesn’t do what Christ tells him to, he is a liar.
I John 2:4 (TLB)
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you cross land and sea to make one convert, and then you turn that person into twice the child of hell you yourselves are!
Matthew 23:15 (NLT)
What sorrow awaits you teachers of religious law and you Pharisees. Hypocrites! For you are careful to tithe even the tiniest income from your herb gardens, but you ignore the more important aspects of the law; justice, mercy, and faith. You should tithe, yes, but do not neglect the more important things.
Matthew 23:23 (NLT)
When you give to someone in need, don’t do as the hypocrites do, blowing trumpets in the synagogues and streets to call attention to their acts of charity! I tell you the truth, they have received all the reward they will ever get.
Matthew 6:2 (NLT)
But the leader in charge of the synagogue was indignant that Jesus had healed her on the Sabbath day. ‘There are six days of the week for working,’ he said to the crowd. ‘Come on those days to be healed, not on the Sabbath.’
Luke 13:14 (NLT)
But The Lord replied, “You hypocrites! Each of you works on the Sabbath day! Don’t you untie your ox or your donkey from its stall on the Sabbath and lead it out for water?”
Luke 13:15 (NLT)
“Not all who sound religious are really godly people. They may refer to Me as ‘Lord,’ but still won’t get to heaven. For the decisive question is whether they obey My Father in heaven.
Matthew 7:21 (TLB)
At the Judgment many will tell me, ‘Lord, Lord, we told others about you and used Your Name to cast out demons and to do many other great miracles.’ But I will reply, ‘You have never been mine. Go away, for your deeds are evil.’
Matthew 7:22-23 (TLB)