Matthew 23:27-28

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look beautiful on the outside but on the inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of impurity. In the same way, on the outside you appear to be righteous, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and wickedness.

Berean Standard Bible, public domain. Read all of Matthew 23 · Words of Christ are set in red.

One song meets this passage

  • “technically our marriage is saved”

    I Write Sins Not Tragedies (Live) · Panic! At the Disco

    strains against Matthew 23:27-28

    Calling the marriage 'saved' while nothing real has been repaired is the whitewashed-tomb move Jesus condemns: appearance over substance.

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