Then the Lord said, “Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.
To the pure, all things are pure; but to the defiled and unbelieving, nothing is pure. Indeed, both their minds and thei
Beware of false prophets. They come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves.
There is a generation of those who are pure in their own eyes and yet unwashed of their filth.
Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great upon the earth, and that every inclination of the thoughts of his
So He said to them, “You are the ones who justify yourselves before men, but God knows your hearts. For what is prized a
For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, and slander.
Draw near to God, and He will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and purify your hearts, you double-mind
Then Peter said, “Ananias, how is it that Satan has filled your heart to lie to the Holy Spirit and withhold some of the
You have no part or share in our ministry, because your heart is not right before God.
Judas did not say this because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money bag, he used
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full o
Her princes are roaring lions; her judges are evening wolves, leaving nothing for the morning.
When the Lord saw her, He had compassion on her and said, “Do not weep.”
They open their jaws against me like lions that roar and maul.
And he did what was right in the eyes of the LORD, but not wholeheartedly.
Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will you harbor wicked thoughts within yo
When he speaks graciously, do not believe him, for seven abominations fill his heart.
Her officials within her are like wolves tearing their prey, shedding blood, and destroying lives for dishonest gain.
The conspiracy of the princes in her midst is like a roaring lion tearing its prey. They devour the people, seize the tr
So this is what Hezekiah did throughout Judah. He did what was good and upright and true before the LORD his God.
Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fr
The evening meal was underway, and the devil had already put into the heart of Judas, the son of Simon Iscariot, to betr
having a form of godliness but denying its power. Turn away from such as these!
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.