100 Bible Verses about Was Paul A Pharisee

Acts 23:6 ESV / 1,020 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.”

Acts 26:5 ESV / 644 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They have known for a long time, if they are willing to testify, that according to the strictest party of our religion I have lived as a Pharisee.

Matthew 3:7 ESV / 546 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come?

Acts 15:5 ESV / 544 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But some believers who belonged to the party of the Pharisees rose up and said, “It is necessary to circumcise them and to order them to keep the law of Moses.”

Acts 22:3 ESV / 539 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up in this city, educated at the feet of Gamaliel according to the strict manner of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God as all of you are this day.

Philippians 3:5 ESV / 487 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Circumcised on the eighth day, of the people of Israel, of the tribe of Benjamin, a Hebrew of Hebrews; as to the law, a Pharisee;

Luke 7:36-50 ESV / 485 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table. And behold, a woman of the city, who was a sinner, when she learned that he was reclining at table in the Pharisee's house, brought an alabaster flask of ointment, and standing behind him at his feet, weeping, she began to wet his feet with her tears and wiped them with the hair of her head and kissed his feet and anointed them with the ointment. Now when the Pharisee who had invited him saw this, he said to himself, “If this man were a prophet, he would have known who and what sort of woman this is who is touching him, for she is a sinner.” And Jesus answering said to him, “Simon, I have something to say to you.” And he answered, “Say it, Teacher.” ...

Acts 23:8 ESV / 437 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Matthew 16:6 ESV / 418 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Jesus said to them, “Watch and beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

Matthew 9:14 ESV / 418 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, “Why do we and the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Matthew 23:23 ESV / 417 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint and dill and cumin, and have neglected the weightier matters of the law: justice and mercy and faithfulness. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

Matthew 23:15 ESV / 409 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you travel across sea and land to make a single proselyte, and when he becomes a proselyte, you make him twice as much a child of hell as yourselves.

Matthew 5:20 ESV / 406 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For I tell you, unless your righteousness exceeds that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 23:13 ESV / 401 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.

Acts 23:1-35 ESV / 398 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.” And the high priest Ananias commanded those who stood by him to strike him on the mouth. Then Paul said to him, “God is going to strike you, you whitewashed wall! Are you sitting to judge me according to the law, and yet contrary to the law you order me to be struck?” Those who stood by said, “Would you revile God's high priest?” And Paul said, “I did not know, brothers, that he was the high priest, for it is written, ‘You shall not speak evil of a ruler of your people.’” ...

Matthew 9:11 ESV / 392 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when the Pharisees saw this, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

Matthew 16:1 ESV / 389 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and Sadducees came, and to test him they asked him to show them a sign from heaven.

Matthew 23:25 ESV / 388 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 21:45 ESV / 383 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the chief priests and the Pharisees heard his parables, they perceived that he was speaking about them.

Luke 12:1 ESV / 380 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In the meantime, when so many thousands of the people had gathered together that they were trampling one another, he began to say to his disciples first, “Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy.

Matthew 16:12 ESV / 380 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then they understood that he did not tell them to beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

Luke 7:30 ESV / 379 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected the purpose of God for themselves, not having been baptized by him.)

Matthew 12:24 ESV / 379 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when the Pharisees heard it, they said, “It is only by Beelzebul, the prince of demons, that this man casts out demons.”

Matthew 23:27 ESV / 377 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you are like whitewashed tombs, which outwardly appear beautiful, but within are full of dead people's bones and all uncleanness.

Matthew 15:1 ESV / 377 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

Acts 23:6-8 ESV / 376 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when Paul perceived that one part were Sadducees and the other Pharisees, he cried out in the council, “Brothers, I am a Pharisee, a son of Pharisees. It is with respect to the hope and the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial.” And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided. For the Sadducees say that there is no resurrection, nor angel, nor spirit, but the Pharisees acknowledge them all.

Luke 13:31 ESV / 372 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

At that very hour some Pharisees came and said to him, “Get away from here, for Herod wants to kill you.”

Matthew 23:2 ESV / 372 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat,

Luke 7:36 ESV / 369 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

One of the Pharisees asked him to eat with him, and he went into the Pharisee's house and reclined at table.

Matthew 12:38 ESV / 367 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then some of the scribes and Pharisees answered him, saying, “Teacher, we wish to see a sign from you.”

Mark 7:3 ESV / 366 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands properly, holding to the tradition of the elders,

Matthew 12:14 ESV / 364 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees went out and conspired against him, how to destroy him.

Luke 11:39 ESV / 363 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Lord said to him, “Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

Matthew 22:15 ESV / 363 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the Pharisees went and plotted how to entangle him in his words.

Matthew 19:3 ESV / 361 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up to him and tested him by asking, “Is it lawful to divorce one's wife for any cause?”

Matthew 22:23 ESV / 359 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The same day Sadducees came to him, who say that there is no resurrection, and they asked him a question,

John 7:48 ESV / 358 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him?

Matthew 9:34 ESV / 356 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the Pharisees said, “He casts out demons by the prince of demons.”

John 11:47 ESV / 355 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So the chief priests and the Pharisees gathered the council and said, “What are we to do? For this man performs many signs.

Luke 5:33 ESV / 355 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they said to him, “The disciples of John fast often and offer prayers, and so do the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink.”

Matthew 15:12 ESV / 355 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then the disciples came and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this saying?”

Matthew 21:33-46 ESV / 341 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country. When the season for fruit drew near, he sent his servants to the tenants to get his fruit. And the tenants took his servants and beat one, killed another, and stoned another. Again he sent other servants, more than the first. And they did the same to them. Finally he sent his son to them, saying, ‘They will respect my son.’ ...

Matthew 21:33 ESV / 341 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Hear another parable. There was a master of a house who planted a vineyard and put a fence around it and dug a winepress in it and built a tower and leased it to tenants, and went into another country.

Matthew 23:1-39 ESV / 330 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Jesus said to the crowds and to his disciples, “The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses' seat, so do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice. They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger. They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long, ...

Acts 4:2 ESV / 312 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Greatly annoyed because they were teaching the people and proclaiming in Jesus the resurrection from the dead.

Galatians 1:14 ESV / 306 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.

Matthew 15:1-3 ESV / 289 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Mark 10:2 ESV / 277 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?”

Matthew 15:1-9 ESV / 249 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat.” He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ...

Acts 23:1 ESV / 243 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And looking intently at the council, Paul said, “Brothers, I have lived my life before God in all good conscience up to this day.”

Acts 26:4 ESV / 240 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“My manner of life from my youth, spent from the beginning among my own nation and in Jerusalem, is known by all the Jews.

Acts 23:7 ESV / 229 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And when he had said this, a dissension arose between the Pharisees and the Sadducees, and the assembly was divided.

Matthew 3:7-10 ESV / 136 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees coming to his baptism, he said to them, “You brood of vipers! Who warned you to flee from the wrath to come? Bear fruit in keeping with repentance. And do not presume to say to yourselves, ‘We have Abraham as our father,’ for I tell you, God is able from these stones to raise up children for Abraham. Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 23:6 ESV / 134 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they love the place of honor at feasts and the best seats in the synagogues

Matthew 23:5 ESV / 133 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They do all their deeds to be seen by others. For they make their phylacteries broad and their fringes long,

Romans 14:1-23 ESV / 130 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As for the one who is weak in faith, welcome him, but not to quarrel over opinions. One person believes he may eat anything, while the weak person eats only vegetables. Let not the one who eats despise the one who abstains, and let not the one who abstains pass judgment on the one who eats, for God has welcomed him. Who are you to pass judgment on the servant of another? It is before his own master that he stands or falls. And he will be upheld, for the Lord is able to make him stand. One person esteems one day as better than another, while another esteems all days alike. Each one should be fully convinced in his own mind. ...

Luke 11:42 ESV / 125 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, and neglect justice and the love of God. These you ought to have done, without neglecting the others.

John 3:16 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

Luke 20:46-47 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Beware of the scribes, who like to walk around in long robes, and love greetings in the marketplaces and the best seats in the synagogues and the places of honor at feasts, who devour widows' houses and for a pretense make long prayers. They will receive the greater condemnation.”

Luke 18:10-14 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ I tell you, this man went down to his house justified, rather than the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”

Mark 10:2-12 ESV / 124 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And Pharisees came up and in order to test him asked, “Is it lawful for a man to divorce his wife?” He answered them, “What did Moses command you?” They said, “Moses allowed a man to write a certificate of divorce and to send her away.” And Jesus said to them, “Because of your hardness of heart he wrote you this commandment. But from the beginning of creation, ‘God made them male and female.’ ...

Matthew 23:26 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside also may be clean.

Matthew 23:8 ESV / 123 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But you are not to be called rabbi, for you have one teacher, and you are all brothers.

John 3:16-17 ESV / 120 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life. For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but in order that the world might be saved through him.

Luke 18:9-14 ESV / 119 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

He also told this parable to some who trusted in themselves that they were righteous, and treated others with contempt: “Two men went up into the temple to pray, one a Pharisee and the other a tax collector. The Pharisee, standing by himself, prayed thus: ‘God, I thank you that I am not like other men, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even like this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I get.’ But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even lift up his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, ‘God, be merciful to me, a sinner!’ ...

Mark 3:6 ESV / 117 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The Pharisees went out and immediately held counsel with the Herodians against him, how to destroy him.

Matthew 6:2 ESV / 115 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may be praised by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 16:5 ESV / 112 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

When the disciples reached the other side, they had forgotten to bring any bread.

Mark 7:5 ESV / 111 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?”

Matthew 23:14 ESV / 110 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Matthew 23:4 ESV / 109 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are not willing to move them with their finger.

Matthew 4:4 ESV / 102 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But he answered, “It is written, “‘Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

Mark 8:15 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he cautioned them, saying, “Watch out; beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and the leaven of Herod.”

Mark 2:18 ESV / 100 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now John's disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, “Why do John's disciples and the disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”

Acts 5:17 ESV / 99 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But the high priest rose up, and all who were with him (that is, the party of the Sadducees), and filled with jealousy

Matthew 23:16 ESV / 99 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.’

Matthew 6:16 ESV / 98 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“And when you fast, do not look gloomy like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces that their fasting may be seen by others. Truly, I say to you, they have received their reward.

Matthew 23:29 ESV / 95 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you build the tombs of the prophets and decorate the monuments of the righteous,

Mark 7:1 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Now when the Pharisees gathered to him, with some of the scribes who had come from Jerusalem,

Matthew 21:31-32 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Which of the two did the will of his father?” They said, “The first.” Jesus said to them, “Truly, I say to you, the tax collectors and the prostitutes go into the kingdom of God before you. For John came to you in the way of righteousness, and you did not believe him, but the tax collectors and the prostitutes believed him. And even when you saw it, you did not afterward change your minds and believe him.

Matthew 7:21-23 ESV / 86 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

“Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the kingdom of heaven, but the one who does the will of my Father who is in heaven. On that day many will say to me, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many mighty works in your name?’ And then will I declare to them, ‘I never knew you; depart from me, you workers of lawlessness.’

Revelation 1:1 ESV / 79 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The revelation of Jesus Christ, which God gave him to show to his servants the things that must soon take place. He made it known by sending his angel to his servant John,

Acts 24:21 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Other than this one thing that I cried out while standing among them: ‘It is with respect to the resurrection of the dead that I am on trial before you this day.’”

Matthew 16:3 ESV / 77 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And in the morning, ‘It will be stormy today, for the sky is red and threatening.’ You know how to interpret the appearance of the sky, but you cannot interpret the signs of the times.

Acts 24:15 ESV / 76 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Having a hope in God, which these men themselves accept, that there will be a resurrection of both the just and the unjust.

Matthew 23:3 ESV / 72 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So do and observe whatever they tell you, but not the works they do. For they preach, but do not practice.

2 Corinthians 11:22 ESV / 71 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Are they Hebrews? So am I. Are they Israelites? So am I. Are they offspring of Abraham? So am I.

Romans 11:1 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

I ask, then, has God rejected his people? By no means! For I myself am an Israelite, a descendant of Abraham, a member of the tribe of Benjamin.

Matthew 15:9 ESV / 68 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Acts 18:4 ESV / 64 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And he reasoned in the synagogue every Sabbath, and tried to persuade Jews and Greeks.

Acts 22:5 ESV / 60 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

As the high priest and the whole council of elders can bear me witness. From them I received letters to the brothers, and I journeyed toward Damascus to take those also who were there and bring them in bonds to Jerusalem to be punished.

Matthew 23:7 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And greetings in the marketplaces and being called rabbi by others.

Matthew 6:3 ESV / 53 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when you give to the needy, do not let your left hand know what your right hand is doing,

Matthew 12:4 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

How he entered the house of God and ate the bread of the Presence, which it was not lawful for him to eat nor for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

Matthew 6:4 ESV / 52 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

So that your giving may be in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 15:4 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’

Matthew 3:10 ESV / 50 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

Even now the axe is laid to the root of the trees. Every tree therefore that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire.

Matthew 16:7 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

And they began discussing it among themselves, saying, “We brought no bread.”

Matthew 6:6 ESV / 48 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

But when you pray, go into your room and shut the door and pray to your Father who is in secret. And your Father who sees in secret will reward you.

Matthew 23:11 ESV / 46 helpful votes Helpful Not Helpful

The greatest among you shall be your servant.