Matthew 23:28 Parallel Translations

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

KJV:

Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye 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.

BBE:

Even so you seem to men to be full of righteousness, but inside you are all false and full of wrongdoing.

DBY:

Thus also ye, outwardly ye appear righteous to men, but within are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

ERV:

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

WEY:

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.

WBS:

Thus ye also outwardly appear righteous to men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

WEB:

Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inwardly you 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.

Matthew 23:28 Cross References

XREF:

Matthew 23:27 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs which on the outside appear beautiful, but inside they are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 23:29 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and adorn the monuments of the righteous, (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

23:28 Ye also outwardly appear righteous. It was only in appearance and profession.

MHC:

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. Not for the glory of God and the good of souls, but that they might have the credit and advantage of making converts. Gain being their godliness, by a thousand devices they made religion give way to their worldly interests. They were very strict and precise in smaller matters of the law, but careless and loose in weightier matters. It is not the scrupling a little sin that Christ here reproves; if it be a sin, though but a gnat, it must be strained out; but the doing that, and then swallowing a camel, or, committing a greater sin. While they would seem to be godly, they were neither sober nor righteous. We are really, what we are inwardly. Outward motives may keep the outside clean, while the inside is filthy; but if the heart and spirit be made new, there will be newness of life; here we must begin with ourselves. The righteousness of the scribes and Pharisees was like the ornaments of a grave, or dressing up a dead body, only for show. The deceitfulness of sinners' hearts appears in that they go down the streams of the sins of their own day, while they fancy that they should have opposed the sins of former days. We sometimes think, if we had lived when Christ was upon earth, that we should not have despised and rejected him, as men then did; yet Christ in his Spirit, in his word, in his ministers, is still no better treated. And it is just with God to give those up to their hearts' lusts, who obstinately persist in gratifying them. Christ gives men their true characters.

CONC:

Appear TRUE Disregard Eye Full God's Honest Human Hypocrisy Indeed Iniquity Inside Insincerity Inwardly Law Lawlessness Outwardly Righteous Righteousness Seem Thus Wickedness Within Wrongdoing

Appear Disregard Eye Full God's Good Honest Human Hypocrisy Iniquity Inside Insincerity Inwardly Law Outside Outwardly Righteous Righteousness Seem True. Way Within Wrongdoing

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