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It is of no use for any of you to try to be soul-winners if you are not bearing fruit in your own lives. How can you serve the Lord with your lips if you do not serve Him with your lives?
- Charles Spurgeon
Con: Christians Are Hypocrites
Brief Overview: Most of us know individuals who claim to be “Christians”, but clearly don’t practice what they preach. Given this clear hypocrisy, why would anyone reasonably entertain playing a role in the “Christian Story”? To discover why even if the "story teller" might be personally flawed, the story itself might still be true, CLICK on buttons below (Complete Overview or "Display by Category/All" or Author Name)
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The value of an idea has nothing whatever to do with the sincerity of the man who expresses it.
- Oscar Wilde -
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The one who sees the most faults in his neighbor is the one who has never looked into his own soul.
- Fulton Sheen -
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The penalty paid by him who speculates on truth without doing it, is, that by degrees the very truth he holds becomes a falsehood.
- Frederick W. Robertson -
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Of all bad men religious bad men are the worst.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Christians Are Hypocrites
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Yes, Christians Are Hypocrites, If by Hypocrite You Mean Sinner
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The Root of the Righteous
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Self-righteousness is a sense of moral superiority that appoints us as prosecutor of other peoples sinfulness. We relate to others as if we are incapable of the sins they commit. Self-righteousness wages war against mercy.
- Dave Harvey -
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Beware of self-righteousness. The black devil of licentiousness destroys his hundreds, but the white devil of self-righteousness destroys his thousands.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Next to hypocrisy in religion, there is nothing worse than hypocrisy in friendship.
- Joseph Hall -
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We are all sinners. But may the Lord not let us be hypocrites. Hypocrites dont know the meaning of forgiveness, joy and the love of God.
- Pope Francis -
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For our sake he made him to be sin who knew no sin, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.
2 Corinthians 5:21
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God, Why Are Christians Such Hypocrites?
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Why Are Christians Such Hypocrites?
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Hypocrisy of Christians
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Jesus On Hypocrites
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Christian Hypocrisy
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Lose My Soul
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Why Are Christians So Hypocritical?
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5 Reasons Christians Are Hypocrites
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What About Hypocrites In The Church?
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6 Ways You're Being A Christian Hypocrite and Don't Even Know It
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Gospel Enemy #1: Self-righteousness
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Twelve Points That Show Christianity Is True: A Handbook On Defending The Christian Faith
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It is a terribly easy matter to be a minister of the gospel and a vile hypocrite at the same time.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Righteousness never comes by faith in self, but by faith in God.
- Randy Alcorn -
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The curse is on self-righteous people who believe they are already acceptable before God. Therefore they will never come to Him for grace.
- Randy Smith (PhD) -
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The problem with the hypocrite is his motivation. He does not want to be holy; he only wants to seem to be holy. He is more concerned with his reputation for righteousness than about actually becoming righteous.
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When are Christian folks going to remember that every time you call yourself a Christian, you invoke the name of God, and that if you then walk a walk that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, cast a vote that does not reflect the presence of Christ in your life, then you are taking the name of the Lord your God in vain?
- Alan Keyes (PhD) -
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It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast themselves most of their being near to the Church.
- Matthew Henry -
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Without the heart it is not worship; it is a stage play; an acting a part without being that person really a hypocrite. We may truly be said to worship God-though we lack perfection; but we cannot be said to worship Him if we lack sincerity.
- Stephen Charnock -
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No devil is so dangerous as the religious devil.
- Joseph Hall -
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Of all things in the world that stink in the nostrils of men, hypocrisy is the worst.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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So put away all malice and all guile and insincerity and envy and all slander.
1 Peter 2:1
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you traverse sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.
Matthew 23:15
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Not every one who says to me, Lord, Lord, shall enter the kingdom of heaven, but he who does the will of my Father who is in heaven.
Matthew 7:21
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Every way of a man is right in his own eyes, but the Lord weighs the heart.
Proverbs 21:2
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For, being ignorant of the righteousness that comes from God, and seeking to establish their own, they did not submit to Gods righteousness. For Christ is the end of the law, that every one who has faith may be justified.
Romans 10:3-4
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he saved us, not because of deeds done by us in righteousness, but in virtue of his own mercy, by the washing of regeneration and renewal in the Holy Spirit,
Titus 3:5
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Why Are Christians Such Hypocrites?
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Christians Are Hypocrites
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Christians Are Hypocrites and Why That's Okay
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The Church is Full of Hypocrites!
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Christians: "Judgmental, Bigoted, Homophobic, Elitist, and Hypocritical
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How to Avoid Being A Hypocritical Christian
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It's Either Real or Fake
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Tired Of Fake
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Running on Faith
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Let Me Tell You About My Jesus
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What Does the Bible Say about Hypocrisy, and Are Christians Hypocrites?
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The Deadly Sin of Hypocrisy
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Sinners, Saints or Hypocrites, The Lies We Spread About Grace
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What Is A Christian Hypocrite?
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5 Biblical Warning Signs of a Self Righteous Christian
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The Choice: Hypocrisy or Real Christianity?,
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Evangelical Pharisees: The Gospel as Cure for the Church's Hypocrisy
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RePresent Jesus: Rethink Your Version of Christianity and Become More like Christ
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How Shall We Live
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The Christian View of Religious Hypocrisy
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The Almost Christian Discovered (1661, Edited 1856)
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The greatest single cause of atheism in the world today is Christians who acknowledge Jesus with their lips and walk out the door and deny Him by their lifestyle.
- Brennan Manning -
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Self-righteousness is the worst of sins because it is unbelief. It trusts in self rather than God.
- John MacArthur -
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Beware of self-righteousness in every possible shape and form. Some people get as much harm from their virtues
- J. C. Ryle -
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I believe there are too many practitioners in the church who are not believers.
- C. S. Lewis -
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Its amazing how much panic one honest man can spread among a multitude of hypocrites.
- Thomas Sowell -
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A bad man is worse when he pretends to be a saint.
- Francis Bacon -
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The heart of man has so many recesses of vanity, and so many retreats of falsehood, and is so enveloped with fraudulent hypocrisy, that it frequently deceives even himself.
- John Calvin -
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Many a Christian, many a church, has everything in the showcase and nothing on the shelves.
- Vance Havner -
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To be a member of the church is to carry the mantle of both the worst sin and the finest heroism of soul . . . because the church always looks exactly as it looked at the original crucifixion, God hung among thieves.
- Ron Rolheiser (PhD) -
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Where the hypocrite's work ends, there the true Christian's work begins.
- Matthew Henry -
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Hypocrisy is Hideous. What cancer is to the body, hypocrisy is to the church. It is a killing agent.
- John R. W. Stott (PhD) -
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Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others.
- Fyodor Dostoevsky -
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He who says “I know him” but disobeys his commandments is a liar, and the truth is not in him.
1 John 2:4
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For if any one thinks he is something, when he is nothing, he deceives himself.
Galatians 6:3
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But be doers of the word, and not hearers only, deceiving yourselves. For if any one is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who observes his natural face in a mirror;
James 1:22-23
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But he said to them, You are those who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts; for what is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
Luke 16:15
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“Beware of the scribes, who like to go about in long robes, and love salutations in the market places and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows’ houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”
Luke 20:46-47
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“Beware of practicing your piety before men in order to be seen by them; for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give alms, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:1-2
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Teach me thy way, O Lord, that I may walk in thy truth; unite my heart to fear thy name.
Psalm 86:11
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Therefore you have no excuse, O man, whoever you are, when you judge another; for in passing judgment upon him you condemn yourself, because you, the judge, are doing the very same things.
Romans 2:1
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Freedom From Hypocrisy
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Hypocrisy of Christianity
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Are Christians All Just A Bunch Of Hypocrites?
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Are Christians Hypocrites?
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Be Genuine, Not Fake
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Give up Now on Trying to Fake It as a Christian
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Real Faith Versus Fake Faith
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Those Crazy Christians
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The Man I Want to Be
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Work Me Lord
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Monster (I Feel Like A Monster)
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God Gonna Cut You Down
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Here I Go Again
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Long Black Train
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Why Are Christians Hypocrites and Judgmental?
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Why Are Christians Such Hypocrites?
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Does Christian “Hypocrisy” Falsify Christianity?
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Are Many Christians Hypocrites?
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All Christians Are Hypocrites
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Christian Liars: The Most Dangerous of Them All?
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What Hypocrisy Does
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Christian Hypocrisy
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Why Is There So Much Hypocrisy In The Church?
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7 Deadliest Signs You are A Hypocrite
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What Is So Dangerous about Self-Righteousness?
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Authentic Christianity: Trading Religion and Rules for True Faith
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When Christians Get It Wrong
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unChristian: What a New Generation Really Thinks about Christianityand Why It Matters
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Finding Truth: 5 Principles for Unmasking Atheism, Secularism, and Other God Substitutes
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Hypocrisy & Judgmentalism
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It is easier to cry against one-thousand sins of others than to kill one of your own
- John Flavel -
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God sends no one away empty except those who are full of themselves.
- D. L. Moody -
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Those who have known God without knowing their wretchedness have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves.
- Blaise Pascal -
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Hypocrisy means deliberately pretending. None of us lives up to his ideals; none of us is all that he would like to be or all that he could be in Christ. But that is not hypocrisy. Falling short of our ideals is not hypocrisy. Pretending we have reached our ideals when we have not - that is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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The greatest enemy to human souls is the self-righteous spirit which makes men look to themselves for salvation.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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True, Christians are often hypocrites. But their Jesus was not. He practiced precisely what he preached as an example to us all.
- Chris D. Cisions -
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Truth without obedience is hypocrisy; obedience without truth is legalism.
- Jack Wellman -
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Great Hypocrites are the real atheists.
- Francis Bacon -
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Pride, perceiving humility honorable, often borrows her cloak.
- Thomas Fuller -
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For neither man nor angel can discern hypocrisy, the only evil that walks invisible, except to God alone.
- John Milton -
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The hypocrite, certainly, is a secret atheist; for if he did believe there was a God, he durst not be so bold as to deceive Him to His face.
- Thomas Adams -
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With their doctrine they build, and with their lives they destroy.
- Augustine of Hippo -
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It is no fault of Christianity that a hypocrite falls into sin.
- St. Jerome -
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Hypocrisy can plunge the mind of a man into a dark abyss, when he believes his own self-flattery instead of God's verdict.
- John Calvin -
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Hypocrites do the devil's drudgery in Christ's livery.
- Matthew Henry -
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Don't stay away from church because there are so many hypocrites. There's always room for one more.
- Arthur Robert Adams (Sir) -
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A hypocrite may well be termed a religious atheist, an atheist masked with religion.
- Stephen Charnock -
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I would not utter what I believed to be a falsehood concerning the Lord, even though the evil one offered me the bait of saving all mankind thereby.
- Charles Spurgeon -
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Out of 100 men, one will read the Bible, the other 99 will read the Christian.
- D. L. Moody -
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There is something of the hypocrites in us all.
- Derek J. Prime -
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Truth without love is brutality, and love without truth is hypocrisy.
- Warren W. Wiersbe -
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Better make penitents by gentleness than hypocrites by severity.
- St. Francis de Sales -
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I love the pure, peaceable, and impartial Christianity of Christ; I therefore hate the corrupt, slave-holding, women-whipping, cradle-plundering, partial and hypocritical Christianity of this land.
- Frederick Douglass -
Bible Quotes
You hypocrite, first take the log out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers eye.
Matthew 7:5
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And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
Mark 7:6
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There are those who are pure in their own eyes but are not cleansed of their filth.
Proverbs 30:12
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"You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father’s desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and has nothing to do with the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks according to his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies."
John 8:44
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God is spirit, and those who worship him must worship in spirit and truth.
John 4:24
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“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within they are full of dead men’s bones and all uncleanness. So you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:27-28
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And when you pray, you must not be like the hypocrites; for they love to stand and pray in the synagogues and at the street corners, that they may be seen by men. Truly, I say to you, they have their reward.
Matthew 6:5
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We love, because he first loved us. If any one says, “I love God,” and hates his brother, he is a liar; for he who does not love his brother whom he has seen, cannot[a] love God whom he has not seen. And this commandment we have from him, that he who loves God should love his brother also.
1 John 4:19-21
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For by grace you have been saved through faith; and this is not your own doing, it is the gift of God, not because of works, lest any man should boast.
Ephesians 2:9
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If any one thinks he is religious, and does not bridle his tongue but deceives his heart, this mans religion is vain.
James 1:26
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Humble yourselves before the Lord and he will exalt you.
James 4:10
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For every one who exalts himself will be humbled, and he who humbles himself will be exalted.
Luke 14:11
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The Lord is near to all who call upon him, to all who call upon him in truth.
Psalm 145:18
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Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law, justice and mercy and faith; these you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.
Matthew 23:23
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They profess to know God, but they deny him by their deeds; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good deed.
Titus 1:16
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