'Hypocrisy' in the Bible
Do not let mercy and kindness and truth leave you [instead let these qualities define you];Bind them [securely] around your neck,Write them on the tablet of your heart.
The integrity of the righteous guides them, but the hypocrisy of the treacherous destroys them.
For the vile person will speak villany, and his heart will work iniquity, to practise hypocrisy, and to utter error against the LORD, to make empty the soul of the hungry, and he will cause the drink of the thirsty to fail.
Yet in spite of all this her treacherous sister Judah did not return to Me with her whole heart, but rather in [blatant] deception [she merely pretended obedience to King Josiah’s reforms],” declares the Lord.
Now when they fall they will be granted a little help, and many will join with them in hypocrisy.
You have plowed evil; you have reaped unrighteousness; you have eaten the fruit of hypocrisy; because you trusted in your own direction, and in the number of your mighty forces.
Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
Shall we give, or shall we not give? But he, knowing their hypocrisy, said unto them, Why tempt ye me? bring me a penny, that I may see it.
In the mean time, when there were gathered together an innumerable multitude of people, insomuch that they trode one upon another, he began to say unto his disciples first of all, Beware ye of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.
Love must be without hypocrisy. Detest evil; cling to what is good.
in purity, in knowledge, in patience, in kindness, in the Holy Spirit, in love without hypocrisy,
Then the rest of the Jews joined his hypocrisy, so that even Barnabas was carried away by their hypocrisy.
But the goal of our instruction is love from a pure heart and a good conscience and a faith without hypocrisy,
Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
But the wisdom that is from above is first pure, then peaceable, gentle, and easy to be intreated, full of mercy and good fruits, without partiality, and without hypocrisy.
But above all things, my brothers, don't swear, neither by heaven, nor by the earth, nor by any other oath; but let your "yes" be "yes," and your "no," "no;" so that you don't fall into hypocrisy.
So rid yourselves of all malice, all deceit, hypocrisy, envy, and all slander.