Matthew 23:28
New International Version
In the same way, on the outside you appear to people as righteous but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

New Living Translation
Outwardly you look like righteous people, but inwardly your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

English Standard Version
So you also outwardly appear righteous to others, but within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Berean Standard Bible
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Berean Literal Bible
Thus indeed outwardly you also appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

King James Bible
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

New King James Version
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

New American Standard Bible
So you too, outwardly appear righteous to people, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

NASB 1995
“So you, too, outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

NASB 1977
“Even so you too outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Legacy Standard Bible
In this way, you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Amplified Bible
So you, also, outwardly seem to be just and upright to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Christian Standard Bible
In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
In the same way, on the outside you seem righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

American Standard Version
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
So also you from the outside appear to the children of men as righteous, and from within are filled with evil and hypocrisy.

Contemporary English Version
That's what you are like. Outside you look good, but inside you are evil and only pretend to be good.

Douay-Rheims Bible
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just; but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

English Revised Version
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
So on the outside you look as though you have God's approval, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Good News Translation
In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.

International Standard Version
In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Literal Standard Version
so also you outwardly indeed appear to men righteous, and within you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Majority Standard Bible
In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

New American Bible
Even so, on the outside you appear righteous, but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.

NET Bible
In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

New Revised Standard Version
So you also on the outside look righteous to others, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

New Heart English Bible
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Webster's Bible Translation
Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Weymouth New Testament
The same is true of you: outwardly you seem to the human eye to be good and honest men, but, within, you are full of insincerity and disregard of God's Law.

World English Bible
Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Young's Literal Translation
so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Additional Translations ...
Audio Bible



Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
27Woe 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. 28In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. 29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.…

Cross References
Proverbs 26:26
Though his hatred is concealed by deception, his wickedness will be exposed in the assembly.

Matthew 23:27
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.

Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You build tombs for the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous.

Galatians 2:13
The other Jews joined him in his hypocrisy, so that by their hypocrisy even Barnabas was led astray.


Treasury of Scripture

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

ye also.

Matthew 23:5
But all their works they do for to be seen of men: they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders of their garments,

1 Samuel 16:7
But the LORD said unto Samuel, Look not on his countenance, or on the height of his stature; because I have refused him: for the LORD seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the outward appearance, but the LORD looketh on the heart.

Psalm 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.

but.

Matthew 12:34,35
O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh…

Matthew 15:19,20
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: …

Mark 7:21-23
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, …

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Matthew 23
1. Jesus admonishes the people to follow good doctrine, not bad examples
5. His disciples must beware of their ambition.
13. He denounces eight woes against their hypocrisy and blindness,
34. and prophesies of the destruction of Jerusalem.














(28) Even so ye also . . .--A like image meets us in the words in which one of the Maccabean princes, Alexander Jannaeus, warned his wife on his death-bed to beware of "men who were painted Pharisees, expecting the reward of Phinehas, while their works were the works of Zimri."

Iniquity.--Better, lawlessness--a reckless disregard of the very Law of which they professed to be the interpreters.



Parallel Commentaries ...


Greek
In the same way,
οὕτως (houtōs)
Adverb
Strong's 3779: Thus, so, in this manner. Or (referring to what precedes or follows).

you
ὑμεῖς (hymeis)
Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou.

appear
φαίνεσθε (phainesthe)
Verb - Present Indicative Middle or Passive - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 5316: Prolongation for the base of phos; to lighten, i.e. Show.

to be righteous
δίκαιοι (dikaioi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 1342: From dike; equitable; by implication, innocent, holy.

on the outside,
ἔξωθεν (exōthen)
Adverb
Strong's 1855: (a) from outside, from without, (b) outside, both as adj. and prep; with article: the outside. From exo; external(-ly).

but
δέ (de)
Conjunction
Strong's 1161: A primary particle; but, and, etc.

on the inside
ἔσωθεν (esōthen)
Adverb
Strong's 2081: From eso; from inside; also used as equivalent to eso.

you are
ἐστε (este)
Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Plural
Strong's 1510: I am, exist. The first person singular present indicative; a prolonged form of a primary and defective verb; I exist.

full
μεστοὶ (mestoi)
Adjective - Nominative Masculine Plural
Strong's 3324: Full, filled with. Of uncertain derivation.

of hypocrisy
ὑποκρίσεως (hypokriseōs)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 5272: From hupokrinomai; acting under a feigned part, i.e. deceit.

and
καὶ (kai)
Conjunction
Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely.

wickedness.
ἀνομίας (anomias)
Noun - Genitive Feminine Singular
Strong's 458: Lawlessness, iniquity, disobedience, sin. From anomos; illegality, i.e. Violation of law or wickedness.


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