Reply #32: "It’s [hypocrisy] a much lesser sin than other sins"... [View All]

...oh, really? So this asshole thinks that hypocrisy is a step up from something? I'll bet this same lamebrain professes to be a Christian, too...

The Bible has a lot to say on the topic; and Jesus reserved some of his harshest words for hypocrites -- see the Matthew entries below:

1. Job 8:13
So are the paths of all that forget God; and the hypocrite's hope shall perish:
2. Job 13:16
He also shall be my salvation: for an hypocrite shall not come before him.
3. Job 15:34
For the congregation of hypocrites shall be desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of bribery.
4. Job 17:8
Upright men shall be astonied at this, and the innocent shall stir up himself against the hypocrite.
5. Job 20:5
That the triumphing of the wicked is short, and the joy of the hypocrite but for a moment?
6. Job 27:8
For what is the hope of the hypocrite, though he hath gained, when God taketh away his soul?
7. Job 34:30
That the hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.
8. Job 36:13
But the hypocrites in heart heap up wrath: they cry not when he bindeth them.
9. Proverbs 11:9
An hypocrite with his mouth destroyeth his neighbour: but through knowledge shall the just be delivered.
10. Isaiah 9:17
Therefore the LORD shall have no joy in their young men, neither shall have mercy on their fatherless and widows: for every one is an hypocrite and an evildoer, and every mouth speaketh folly. For all this his anger is not turned away, but his hand is stretched out still.
11. Isaiah 33:14
The sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?
12. Matthew 6:2
Therefore when thou doest thine alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
13. Matthew 6:5
And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to pray standing in the synagogues and in the corners of the streets, that they may be seen of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
14. Matthew 6:16
Moreover when ye fast, be not, as the hypocrites, of a sad countenance: for they disfigure their faces, that they may appear unto men to fast. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.
15. Matthew 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.
16. Matthew 15:7
Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
17. Matthew 16:3
And in the morning, It will be foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowering. O ye hypocrites, ye can discern the face of the sky; but can ye not discern the signs of the times?
18. Matthew 22:18
But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?
19. Matthew 23:13
But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.
20. Matthew 23:14
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye devour widows' houses, and for a pretence make long prayer: therefore ye shall receive the greater damnation.
21. Matthew 23:15
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.
22. Matthew 23:23
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.
23. Matthew 23:25
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess.
24. Matthew 23:27
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
25. Matthew 23:29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchres of the righteous,