The facade a person puts on to hide the inner self from others eventually becomes a prison from which he cannot escape.
Remember,
The best you, is
the real you, and the real you, is
the you that God wants you to be and enables you to become.
We should be honest, be real and be humble; with God, with ourselves and with others.
VERSES...
MATTHEW 7:5
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.
MATTHEW 15:7-9
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
MATTHEW 23:15
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.
MATTHEW 23:27-29
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
MATTHEW 24:51
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
MARK 12:15
15 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.
ROMANS 12:9
9 Let love be without dissimulation (hypocrisy). Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
1 TIMOTHY 1:5
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned (un-hypocritical faith):
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 PETER 1:22
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love (un-hypocritical love) of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 PETER 2:1
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
My Observation
I watch, as the years go by, and see so many people who try to keep up appearances, not realizing that they are making their own escape from sin more difficult.
Also, the mask they wear usually looks like a mask to everyone else, while the person who wears it erroneously thinks he has everyone fooled.
Behind the cheap hypocrisy there is a treasure, unwilling and then unable to surface and enjoy the reality of honest relationships.
HOW SAD, TREASURES COVERED, CORRUPTED AND CONSUMED BY TRASH.
VERSES...
MATTHEW 7:5
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.
MATTHEW 15:7-9
7 Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8 This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
9 But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
MATTHEW 23:15
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.
MATTHEW 23:27-29
27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchers, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness.
28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
29 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye build the tombs of the prophets, and garnish the sepulchers of the righteous,
MATTHEW 24:51
51 And shall cut him asunder, and appoint him his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.
MARK 12:15
15 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.
ROMANS 12:9
9 Let love be without dissimulation (hypocrisy). Abhor that which is evil; cleave to that which is good.
1 TIMOTHY 1:5
5 Now the end of the commandment is charity out of a pure heart, and of a good conscience, and of faith unfeigned (un-hypocritical faith):
1 TIMOTHY 4:1-2
1 Now the Spirit speaketh expressly, that in the latter times some shall depart from the faith, giving heed to seducing spirits, and doctrines of devils;
2 Speaking lies in hypocrisy; having their conscience seared with a hot iron;
1 PETER 1:22
22 Seeing ye have purified your souls in obeying the truth through the Spirit unto unfeigned love (un-hypocritical love) of the brethren, see that ye love one another with a pure heart fervently:
1 PETER 2:1
1 Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, and all evil speakings,
My Observation
I watch, as the years go by, and see so many people who try to keep up appearances, not realizing that they are making their own escape from sin more difficult.
Also, the mask they wear usually looks like a mask to everyone else, while the person who wears it erroneously thinks he has everyone fooled.
Behind the cheap hypocrisy there is a treasure, unwilling and then unable to surface and enjoy the reality of honest relationships.
HOW SAD, TREASURES COVERED, CORRUPTED AND CONSUMED BY TRASH.
