Matthew 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Matthew 23:28 in other translations
| BSB | In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness. |
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| WEB | Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
| ASV | Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
| YLT | so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. |
| DARBY | Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness. |
| BBE | Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing. |
| Webster | Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. |
What does Matthew 23:28 mean?
Adam Clarke's Commentary
Adam Clarke, 1831 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Matthew 23:13-33
The scribes and Pharisees were enemies to the gospel of Christ, and therefore to the salvation of the souls of men. It is bad to keep away from Christ ourselves, but worse also to keep others from him. Yet it is no new thing for the show and form of godliness to be made a cloak to the greatest enormities. But dissembled piety will be reckoned double iniquity. They were very busy to turn souls to be of their party…
Matthew 23:28 in the original Greek
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Cross references for Matthew 23:28
- Luke 16:15
And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
- Psalms 51:6
Behold, thou desirest truth in the inward parts: and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom.
- 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,
- 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. A good man out of the good treasure of the heart bringeth forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure bringeth forth evil things.
- 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.
- Matthew 15:19-20
For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not a man.
- Mark 7:21-23
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
- Hebrews 4:12-13
For the word of God is quick, and powerful, and sharper than any twoedged sword, piercing even to the dividing asunder of soul and spirit, and of the joints and marrow, and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight: but all things are naked and opened unto the eyes of him with whom we have to do.
- Jeremiah 17:9-10
The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins, even to give every man according to his ways, and according to the fruit of his doings.
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- Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men’s bones, and of all uncleanness.
- Matthew 23:28
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
- Matthew 23:29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,
Matthew 23:28 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Así también vosotros de fuera, á la verdad, os mostráis justos á los hombres; mas de dentro, llenos estáis de hipocresía é iniquidad. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | Ainsi, vous aussi, au-dehors vous paraissez justes aux hommes, mais au-dedans vous êtes pleins d’hypocrisie et d’iniquité. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | Also scheinet auch ihr von außen zwar gerecht vor den Menschen, von innen aber seid ihr voll Heuchelei und Gesetzlosigkeit. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Sic et vos a foris quidem paretis hominibus justi: intus autem pleni estis hypocrisi et iniquitate. |