Matthew 23:28
Good News Translation
In the same way, on the outside you appear good to everybody, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and sins.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

ye also.

Matthew 23:5 And all their works they do for to be seen of men. For they make their phylacteries broad and enlarge their fringes.

1 Samuel 16:7 And the Lord said to Samuel: Look not on his countenance, nor on the height of his stature: because I have rejected him, nor do I judge according to the look of man: for man seeth those things that appear, but the Lord beholdeth the heart.

Psalm 51:6 For behold thou hast loved truth: the uncertain and hidden things of thy wisdom thou hast made manifest to me.

Jeremiah 17:9,10 The heart is perverse above all things, and unsearchable, who can know it? . . .

Luke 16:15 And he said to them: you are they who justify yourselves before men, but God knoweth your hearts. For that which is high to men is an abomination before God.

Hebrews 4:12,13 For the word of God is living and effectual and more piercing than any two edged sword; and reaching unto the division of the soul and the spirit, of the joints also and the marrow: and is a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. . . .

but.

Matthew 12:34,35 O generation of vipers, how can you speak good things, whereas you are evil? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaketh. . . .

Matthew 15:19,20 For from the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, blasphemies. . . .

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

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. 28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity. 29Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,…
Cross References
Proverbs 26:26
He that covereth hatred deceitfully, his malice shall be laid open in the public assembly.

Matthew 23:27
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Matthew 23:29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites, that build the sepulchres of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the just,

Galatians 2:13
And to his dissimulation the rest of the Jews consented: so that Barnabas also was led by them into that dissimulation.

Matthew 23:27
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