Quotes about Truth

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

A man is not defiled by what enters his mouth, but by what comes out of it.”

“Which ones?” the man asked. Jesus answered, “‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not bear false witness,

So they answered, “We do not know.” And Jesus replied, “Neither will I tell you by what authority I am doing these things.

They sent their disciples to Him along with the Herodians. “Teacher,” they said, “we know that You are honest and that You teach the way of God in accordance with the truth. You seek favor from no one, because You pay no attention to external appearance.

Jesus answered, “You are mistaken because you do not know the Scriptures or the power of God.

So practice and observe everything they tell you. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they preach.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men’s faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let in those who wish to enter.

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You traverse land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.

So then, he who swears by the altar swears by it and by everything on it.

And he who swears by heaven swears by God’s throne and by the One who sits on it.