Matthew 23:28 Cross References

Matthew 23:28

28: You try to look like upright people outwardly, but inside your hearts are filled with hypocrisy and lawlessness.

Matthew 12:34

  1. You brood of snakes! How could evil men like you speak what is good and right? For whatever is in your heart determines what you say.
  2. A good person produces good words from a good heart, and an evil person produces evil words from an evil heart.

Luke 16:15

  1. Then he said to them, "You like to look good in public, but God knows your evil hearts. What this world honors is an abomination in the sight of God.

Matthew 23:5

  1. "Everything they do is for show. On their arms they wear extra wide prayer boxes with Scripture verses inside, and they wear extra long tassels on their robes.

1 Samuel 16:7

  1. But the LORD said to Samuel, "Don't judge by his appearance or height, for I have rejected him. The LORD doesn't make decisions the way you do! People judge by outward appearance, but the LORD looks at a person's thoughts and intentions."

Jeremiah 17:9

  1. "The human heart is most deceitful and desperately wicked. Who really knows how bad it is?
  2. But I know! I, the LORD, search all hearts and examine secret motives. I give all people their due rewards, according to what their actions deserve."

Psalms 51:6

  1. But you desire honesty from the heart, so you can teach me to be wise in my inmost being.

Hebrews 4:12

  1. For the word of God is full of living power. It is sharper than the sharpest knife, cutting deep into our innermost thoughts and desires. It exposes us for what we really are.
  2. Nothing in all creation can hide from him. Everything is naked and exposed before his eyes. This is the God to whom we must explain all that we have done.

Matthew 15:19

  1. For from the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, all other sexual immorality, theft, lying, and slander.
  2. These are what defile you. Eating with unwashed hands could never defile you and make you unacceptable to God!"

Mark 7:21

  1. For from within, out of a person's heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder,
  2. adultery, greed, wickedness, deceit, eagerness for lustful pleasure, envy, slander, pride, and foolishness.
  3. All these vile things come from within; they are what defile you and make you unacceptable to God."
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