Matthew 23:27
Good News Translation
"How terrible for you, teachers of the Law and Pharisees! You hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which look fine on the outside but are full of bones and decaying corpses on the inside.

New Revised Standard Version
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which on the outside look beautiful, but inside they are full of the bones of the dead and of all kinds of filth.

Contemporary English Version
You Pharisees and teachers are in for trouble! You're nothing but show-offs. You're like tombs that have been whitewashed. On the outside they are beautiful, but inside they are full of bones and filth.

New American Bible
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites. You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men’s bones and every kind of filth.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness.

like.

Isaiah 58:1,2 Cry, cease not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and shew my people their wicked doings, and the house of Jacob their sins. . . .

Luke 11:44 Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Acts 23:3 Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. For, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the law, commandest me to be struck?

sepulchres.

Numbers 19:16 If any man in the field touch the corpse of a man that was slain, or that died of himself, or his bone, or his grave, he shall be unclean seven days.

Context
Woes to Scribes and Pharisees
26Thou blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the dish, that the outside may become clean. 27Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites; because you are like to whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear to men beautiful but within are full of dead men's bones and of all filthiness. 28So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.…
Cross References
Proverbs 26:23
Swelling lips joined with a corrupt heart, are like an earthern vessel adorned with silver dross.

Matthew 23:28
So you also outwardly indeed appear to men just: but inwardly you are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.

Luke 11:44
Woe to you, because you are as sepulchres that appear not: and men that walk over are not aware.

Acts 23:3
Then Paul said to him: God shall strike thee, thou whited wall. For, sittest thou to judge me according to the law and, contrary to the law, commandest me to be struck?

Galatians 6:12
For as many as desire to please in the flesh, they constrain you to be circumcised, only that they may not suffer the persecution of the cross of Christ.

Matthew 23:26
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