Robertson: hypocrisy

Friday, February 6, 2026
Meditation:
    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. Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
    —Matthew 23:27-28
Quotation:
    I will tell you what to hate. Hate hypocrisy—hate cant—hate intolerance, oppression, injustice—hate Pharisaism. Hate them as Christ hated them, with a deep, living, godlike hatred.
    ... Frederick W. Robertson (1816-1853), Sermons, v. II, Leipzig: Tauchnitz, 1861, p. 253 (see the book)
    See also Matt. 23:27-28; Ps. 51;6; Jer. 17:9-10; Matt. 6:1-7; 23:5; Luke 16:15; 20:47; Phil. 2:3
Quiet time reflection:
    Lord, lead me not to hate the person but only the sin. CQOD    Blog    email    RSS
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