Hypocrisy

Nave's Topical Bible

Topic from Nave's Topical Bible (Orville J. Nave, 1897) — public domain.

• Proverbs 11:9 OT

  With his mouth the godless man destroys his neighbor, but the righteous will be delivered through knowledge.

• Proverbs 14:8 OT

  The wisdom of the prudent is to think about his way, but the folly of fools is deceit.

• Proverbs 15:8 OT

  The sacrifice made by the wicked is an abomination to Yahweh, but the prayer of the upright is his delight.

• Proverbs 20:14 OT

  “It’s no good, it’s no good,” says the buyer; but when he is gone his way, then he boasts.

• Proverbs 21:27 OT

  The sacrifice of the wicked is an abomination— how much more, when he brings it with a wicked mind!

• Proverbs 23:6-8 OT

  Don’t eat the food of him who has a stingy eye, and don’t crave his delicacies: for as he thinks about the cost, so he is. “Eat and drink!” he says to you, but his heart is not with you. The morsel which you have eaten you shall vomit up,…

• Proverbs 25:19 OT

  Confidence in someone unfaithful in time of trouble is like a bad tooth or a lame foot.

• Proverbs 26:18 OT

  Like a madman who shoots torches, arrows, and death,

• Proverbs 26:19 OT

  is the man who deceives his neighbor and says, “Am I not joking?”

• Proverbs 26:23-26 OT

  Like silver dross on an earthen vessel are the lips of a fervent one with an evil heart. A malicious man disguises himself with his lips, but he harbors evil in his heart. When his speech is charming, don’t believe him, for there are seven…

• Isaiah 1:11-15 OT

  “What are the multitude of your sacrifices to me?”, says Yahweh. “I have had enough of the burnt offerings of rams and the fat of fed animals. I don’t delight in the blood of bulls, or of lambs, or of male goats. When you come to appear…

• Isaiah 9:17 OT

  Therefore the Lord will not rejoice over their young men, neither will he have compassion on their fatherless and widows; for everyone is profane and an evildoer, and every mouth speaks folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but…

• Isaiah 10:6 OT

  I will send him against a profane nation, and against the people who anger me I will give him a command to take the plunder and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

• Isaiah 29:13 OT

  The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;

• Isaiah 29:15 OT

  Woe to those who deeply hide their counsel from Yahweh, and whose deeds are in the dark, and who say, “Who sees us?” and “Who knows us?”

• Isaiah 29:16 OT

  You turn things upside down! Should the potter be thought to be like clay; that the thing made should say about him who made it, “He didn’t make me;” or the thing formed say of him who formed it, “He has no understanding?”

• Isaiah 32:5 OT

  The fool will no longer be called noble, nor the scoundrel be highly respected.

• Isaiah 32:6 OT

  For the fool will speak folly, and his heart will work iniquity, to practice profanity, and to utter error against Yahweh, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and to cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.

• Isaiah 33:14 OT

  The sinners in Zion are afraid. Trembling has seized the godless ones. Who among us can live with the devouring fire? Who among us can live with everlasting burning?

• Isaiah 48:1 OT

  “Hear this, house of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel, and have come out of the waters of Judah. You swear by Yahweh’s name, and make mention of the God of Israel, but not in truth, nor in righteousness—

• Isaiah 48:2 OT

  for they call themselves citizens of the holy city, and rely on the God of Israel; Yahweh of Armies is his name.

• Isaiah 58:2-5 OT

  Yet they seek me daily, and delight to know my ways. As a nation that did righteousness, and didn’t forsake the ordinance of their God, they ask of me righteous judgments. They delight to draw near to God. ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say,…

• Isaiah 61:8 OT

  “For I, Yahweh, love justice. I hate robbery and iniquity. I will give them their reward in truth and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

• Isaiah 65:5 OT

  who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.