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geneva@Genesis:27:41 @ And Esau hated Jacob because of the blessing wherewith his father blessed him: and Esau said in his heart, The days of mourning for my father are at hand; (note:)Hypocrites only abstain from doing evil for fear of men.(:note) then will I slay my brother Jacob.

geneva@Numbers:1:1 @ And the LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of (note:)In the place in the wilderness that was near mount Sinai.(:note) Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first [day] of the Which is part of April and part of May. second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt, saying, The Argument - In that as God has appointed that his Church in this world shall be under the cross, both so they could learn not to put their trust in worldly things, and also feel his comfort, when all other help fails: he did not immediately bring his people, after their departure out of Egypt, into the land which he had promised them: but led them to and fro for the space of forty years, and kept them in continual exercises before they enjoyed it, to try their faith, teach them to forget the world, and to depend on him. Which trial greatly profited, to discern the wicked and the hypocrites from the faithful and true servants of God, who served him with pure heart, while the other, preferring their earthly lusts to God's glory, and making religion to serve their purpose, complained when they lacked enough to satisfy their lusts, and despised those who God had appointed as rulers over them. By reason of which they provoked God's terrible judgments against them, and are set forth as a notable example for all ages, to beware how they abuse God's word, prefer their own lusts to his will, or despise his ministers. Nonetheless, God is always true to his promise, and governs his by his Holy Spirit, that either they fall not to such inconveniences, or else return to him quickly in true repentance: and therefore he continues his graces toward them, he gives them ordinances and instructions, as well for religion, as outward policy: he preserves them against all deceit and conspiracy, and gives them many victories against their enemies. To avoid all controversies that might arise, he takes away the occasions, by dividing among all the tribes, both the land which they had won, and that also which he had promised, as seemed best to his godly wisdom.

geneva@Deuteronomy:17:1 @ Thou shalt not sacrifice unto the LORD thy God [any] bullock, or sheep, wherein is (note:)You shall not serve God for selfish means as the hypocrites do.(:note) blemish, [or] any evilfavouredness: for that [is] an abomination unto the LORD thy God.

geneva@1Samuel:15:13 @ And Samuel came to Saul: and Saul said unto him, Blessed [be] thou of the LORD: I have performed the (note:)This is the nature of hypocrites to be impudent against the truth, to condemn others, and justify themselves.(:note) commandment of the LORD.

geneva@1Kings:13:6 @ And the king answered and said unto the man of God, (note:)Though the wicked humble themselves for a time when they feel God's judgment, they return to their old malice and declare that they are but vile hypocrites.(:note) Intreat now the face of the LORD thy God, and pray for me, that my hand may be restored me again. And the man of God besought the LORD, and the king's hand was restored him again, and became as [it was] before.

geneva@2Kings:6:30 @ And it came to pass, when the king heard the words of the woman, that he rent his clothes; and he passed by upon the wall, and the people looked, and, behold, [he had] sackcloth within (note:)Thus hypocrites when they feel God's judgments think to please him with outward ceremonies whom in prosperity they will not know.(:note) upon his flesh.

geneva@2Chronicles:6:30 @ Then hear thou from heaven thy dwelling place, and forgive, and render unto every man according unto all his ways, whose (note:)He declares that the prayers of hypocrites cannot be heard, nor of any but of them who pray to God with a true faith and in true repentance.(:note) heart thou knowest; (for thou only knowest the hearts of the children of men:)

geneva@2Chronicles:18:23 @ Then Zedekiah the son of Chenaanah came near, and smote Micaiah upon the (note:)By this cruelty his ambition and hypocrisy was discovered; thus the hypocrites boast of the Spirit which they do not have, and declare their malice against them on whom the true Spirit is.(:note) cheek, and said, Which way went the Spirit of the LORD from me to speak unto thee?

geneva@Job:5:27 @ Lo (note:)We have learned these points by experience, that God does not punish the innocent, that man cannot compare in justice with him, that the hypocrites will not prosper for long, and that the affliction which man sustains comes for his own sin.(:note) this, we have searched it, so it [is]; hear it, and know thou [it] for thy good.

geneva@Job:8:13 @ So are the paths of al that forget God, and the hypocrites hope shall perish.

geneva@Job:15:34 @ For the congregation of hypocrites [shall be] desolate, and fire shall consume the tabernacles of (note:)Who were built or maintained by bribery.(:note) bribery.

geneva@Job:20:5 @ That the reioycing of the wicked is short, and that the ioy of hypocrites is but a moment?

geneva@Job:34:30 @ That the (note:)When tyrants sit in the throne of justice which under pretence of executing justice are hypocrites and oppress the people, it is a sign that God has drawn back his countenance of favour from that place.(:note) hypocrite reign not, lest the people be ensnared.

geneva@Job:36:13 @ But the hypocrites (note:)Which are maliciously bent against God, and flatter themselves in their vices.(:note) in heart heap up wrath: they When they are in affliction they do not seek God for help, as Asa in (2Ch_16:12). cry not when he bindeth them.

geneva@Psalms:10:16 @ The LORD [is] King for ever and ever: the (note:)The hypocrites or such as live not after God's law, will be destroyed.(:note) heathen are perished out of his land.

geneva@Psalms:18:41 @ They (note:)They who reject the cry of the afflicted, God will also reject them when they cry for help, for either pain or fear causes those hypocrites to cry.(:note) cried, but [there was] none to save [them: even] unto the LORD, but he answered them not.

geneva@Psalms:50:4 @ He shall call to the heavens from above, and to (note:)As witnessing against the hypocrites.(:note) the earth, that he may judge his people.

geneva@Psalms:50:20 @ Thou (note:)He notes the cruelty of hypocrites who in their talk or judgment do not spare their own mother's sons.(:note) sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

geneva@Psalms:54:6 @ I will (note:)For hypocrites serve God out of fear or on conditions.(:note) freely sacrifice unto thee: I will praise thy name, O LORD; for [it is] good.

geneva@Psalms:73:1 @ «A Psalm of Asaph.» Truly (note:)As it were between hope and despair he bursts forth into this affection, being assured that God would continue his favour toward such as were godly indeed, and not hypocrites.(:note) God [is] good to Israel, [even] to such as are of a clean heart.

geneva@Isaiah:1:14 @ Your (note:)Your sacrifices offered in the new moons and feasts: he condemns by this hypocrites who think to please God with ceremonies and they themselves are void of faith and mercy.(:note) new moons and your appointed feasts my soul hateth: they are a trouble to me; I am weary of bearing [them].

geneva@Isaiah:1:17 @ Learn to (note:)This kind of reasoning by the second table, the scriptures use in many places against the hypocrites who pretend holiness and religion in word, but when charity and love for their brethren should appear they declare that they have neither faith nor religion.(:note) do well; seek judgment, relieve the oppressed, judge the fatherless, plead for the widow.

geneva@Isaiah:10:6 @ I will send (note:)That is, the Assyrians against the Jews who are hypocrites. In the sixth and seventh verse is declared the difference of the work of God and of the wicked in one very thing and act: for God's intention is to chastise them for their amendment, and the Assyrians purpose is to destroy them to enrich themselves. Thus in respect to God's justice, it is God's work, but in respect to their own malice, it is the work of the devil.(:note) him against an hypocritical nation, and against the people of my wrath will I command him, to take the spoil, and to take the prey, and to tread them down like the mire of the streets.

geneva@Isaiah:28:7 @ But (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites who were among them, and were altogether corrupt in life and doctrine, which is here meant by drunkenness and vomiting.(:note) they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are overwhelmed with wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble [in] judgment.

geneva@Isaiah:29:13 @ Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people (note:)Because they are hypocrites and not sincere in heart, as in (Mat_15:7-8).(:note) draw near [me] with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their That is, their religion was learned by man's doctrine, and not by my word. fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:

geneva@Isaiah:33:14 @ The (note:)Which do not believe the words of the prophet, and the assurance of their deliverance.(:note) sinners in Zion are afraid; fearfulness hath surprised the hypocrites. Who among us shall dwell with the devouring fire? who among us shall dwell with everlasting burnings?

geneva@Isaiah:48:22 @ [There is] no (note:)Thus he speaks that the wicked hypocrites should not abuse God's promise, in whom was neither faith nor repentance, as in (Isa_57:21)(:note) peace, saith the LORD, to the wicked.

geneva@Isaiah:54:15 @ Behold, they shall surely assemble, [but] not by (note:)And therefore will not prevail.(:note) me: whoever shall assemble Meaning, the domestic enemies of the Church, as are the hypocrites. against thee shall fall for thy sake.

geneva@Isaiah:55:1 @ Ho, every one that (note:)Christ by proposing his graces and gifts to his Church, exempts the hypocrites who are full with their imagined works, and the Epicureans who are full with their worldly lusts, and so do not thirst after these waters.(:note) thirsteth, come ye to the waters, and he that hath Signifying that God's benefits cannot be bought for money. no money; come ye, buy, and eat; yea, come, buy By waters, wine, milk and bread, he means all things necessary to the spiritual life, as these are necessary to this corporal life. wine and milk without money and without price.

geneva@Isaiah:56:9 @ All ye (note:)Meaning, the enemies of the Church, as the Babylonians, Assyrians, etc thus he speaks to scare the hypocrites and to assure the faithful that when this comes they may know it was told to them before.(:note) beasts of the field, come to devour, [yea], all ye beasts in the forest.

geneva@Isaiah:57:3 @ But draw near here, ye (note:)He threatens the wicked hypocrites, who under the pretence of the name of God's people, derided God's word and his promises: boasting openly that they were the children of Abraham, but because they were not faithful and obedient as Abraham was, he calls them bastards and the children of sorcerers, who forsook God, and fled to wicked means for comfort.(:note) sons of the sorceress, the seed of the adulterer and the harlot.

geneva@Isaiah:58:1 @ Cry (note:)The Lord thus speaks to the prophet willing him to use all diligence and severity to rebuke the hypocrites.(:note) aloud, spare not, lift up thy voice like a trumpet, and show my people their transgression, and the house of Jacob their sins.

geneva@Isaiah:61:8 @ For I the LORD love judgment, I hate (note:)I will not receive their offerings who are extortioners, deceivers, hypocrites or that deprive me of my glory.(:note) robbery for burnt offering; and I will direct their work in truth, and I will make an everlasting covenant with them.

geneva@Isaiah:65:8 @ Thus saith the LORD, As the new wine is found in the cluster, and [one] saith, Destroy it not; for a (note:)That is, it is profitable: meaning that God will not destroy the faithful branches of his vineyard, when he destroys the rotten stocks, that is, the hypocrites.(:note) blessing [is] in it: so will I do for my servants' sake, that I may not destroy them all.

geneva@Isaiah:66:5 @ Hear the word of the LORD, ye that tremble at his (note:)He encourages the faithful by promising to destroy their enemies, who pretended to be as brethren, but were hypocrites, and hated them that feared God.(:note) word; Your brethren that hated you, that cast you out for my name's sake, said, Let the LORD be glorified: but he shall appear to your joy, and they shall be ashamed.

geneva@Isaiah:66:17 @ They that sanctify (note:)Meaning, the hypocrites.(:note) themselves, and purify themselves in the gardens behind one [tree] in the midst, eating By which are meant them that maliciously transgressed the law, by eating beasts forbidden, even to the mouse which nature abhors. swine's flesh, and the abomination, and the mouse, shall be consumed together, saith the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:2:23 @ How canst thou say, I am not polluted, I have not (note:)Meaning that hypocrites deny that they worship the idols, but that they honour God in them, and therefore they call their doings God's service.(:note) gone after Baalim? see thy way in the valley, know what thou hast done: [thou art] a swift He compares the idolaters to these beasts, because they never cease running to and fro: for both valleys and hills are full of their idolatry. dromedary traversing her ways;

geneva@Jeremiah:14:19 @ Hast thou utterly rejected (note:)Though the prophet knew that God had cast off the multitude, who were hypocrites and bastard children, yet he was assured that for his promise sake he would still have a Church, for which he prays.(:note) Judah? hath thy soul abhorred Zion? why hast thou smitten us, and [there is] no healing for us? we looked for peace, and [there is] no good; and for the time of healing, and behold trouble!

geneva@Jeremiah:26:9 @ Why hast thou prophesied in the name of the LORD, saying, (note:)Because of God's promises to the temple, (Psa_132:14) that he would forever remain there, hypocrites thought this temple could never perish and therefore thought it blasphemy to speak against it, (Mat_26:61; Act_6:13) not considering that this was meant of the Church where God will remain forever.(:note) This house shall be like Shiloh, and this city shall be desolate without an inhabitant? And all the people were gathered against Jeremiah in the house of the LORD.

geneva@Jeremiah:30:23 @ Behold, (note:)Lest the wicked hypocrites should flatter themselves with these promises the prophet shows what will be their portion.(:note) the whirlwind of the LORD goeth forth with fury, a continuing whirlwind: it shall fall with pain upon the head of the wicked.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:3 @ That the LORD thy God may show us the way in which we may walk, and the thing that we may (note:)This declares the nature of hypocrites who would know of God's word what they should do, but will not follow it, unless it agrees with that thing which they have purposed to do.(:note) do.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:5 @ Then they said to Jeremiah, (note:)There are as ready to abuse the Name of God and take it in vain as the hypocrites who colour their falsehood, use it without all reverence and make it a means for them to deceive the simple and the godly.(:note) The LORD be a true and faithful witness between us, if we do not even according to all things for which the LORD thy God shall send thee to us.

geneva@Jeremiah:42:20 @ For ye were (note:)For you were fully intending to go into Egypt, whatever God spoke to the contrary.(:note) hypocrites in your hearts, when ye sent me to the LORD your God, saying, Pray for us to the LORD our God; and according to all that the LORD our God shall say, so declare to us, and we will do [it].

geneva@Jeremiah:43:2 @ Then spoke (note:)Who was also called Jezaniah, (Jer_42:1).(:note) Azariah the son of Hoshaiah, and Johanan the son of Kareah, and all the This declares that pride is the cause of rebellion and contempt of God's ministers. proud men, saying to Jeremiah, When the hypocrisy of the wicked is discovered, they burst forth into open rage: for they can abide nothing but flattery, read (Isa_30:10). Thou speakest falsely: the LORD our God hath He shows what is the nature of the hypocrites: that is, to pretend that they would obey God and embrace his word, if they were assured that his messenger spoke the truth: though indeed they are most far from all obedience. not sent thee to say, Go not into Egypt to sojourn there:

geneva@Lamentations:3:1 @ I [am] the man [that] hath seen (note:)The prophet complains of the punishments and afflictions that he endured by the false prophets and hypocrites when he declared the destruction of Jerusalem, as in (Jer_20:1-2).(:note) affliction by the rod of his wrath.

geneva@Ezekiel:18:24 @ But when the righteous turneth away from his righteousness, and committeth iniquity, [and] doeth according to all the abominations that the wicked [man] doeth, shall he live? All his (note:)That is, the false opinion that the hypocrites have of their righteousness.(:note) righteousness that he hath done shall not be mentioned: in his trespass that he hath trespassed, and in his sin that he hath sinned, in them shall he die.

geneva@Ezekiel:20:39 @ As for you, O house of Israel, thus saith the Lord GOD; (note:)This is spoken to the hypocrites.(:note) Go ye, serve ye every one his idols, and after this [also], if ye will not hearken to me: but profane ye my holy name no more with your gifts, and with your idols.

geneva@Daniel:11:34 @ Now when they shall fall, they shall be holpen with a (note:)As God will not leave his Church destitute, yet he will not deliver it all at once, but help in such a way that they may still seem to fight under the cross, as he did in the time of the Maccabees, of which he here prophesies.(:note) little help: but many shall cleave to them That is, there will even be among this small number many hypocrites. with flatteries.

geneva@Hosea:8:2 @ Israel shall (note:)They will cry like hypocrites, but not from the heart, as their deeds declare.(:note) cry unto me, My God, we know thee.

geneva@Hosea:12:8 @ And Ephraim said, Yet I am become rich, I have found me out substance: [in] all my labours they shall find none iniquity in me (note:)Thus way the wicked measure God's favour by outward prosperity, and like hypocrites cannot endure that any should reprove their doings.(:note) that [were] sin.

geneva@Amos:5:18 @ Woe unto you that (note:)He speaks in this way because the wicked and hypocrites said they were content to endure God's judgments, whereas the godly tremble and fear; (Jer_30:7; Joe_2:2, Joe_2:11), (Zep_1:15).(:note) desire the day of the LORD! to what end [is] it for you? the day of the LORD [is] darkness, and not light.

geneva@Micah:6:7 @ Will the LORD be pleased with thousands of rams, [or] with ten thousands of rivers of oil? shall I give my (note:)There is nothing so dear to man, but the hypocrites will offer it to God, if they think by this to avoid his anger. But they will never by brought to mortify their own affections, and to give themselves willingly to serve God as he commands.(:note) firstborn [for] my transgression, the fruit of my body [for] the sin of my soul?

geneva@Micah:7:13 @ Notwithstanding the land shall be desolate because of them that dwell therein, for the fruit of (note:)Before this grace appears, he shows how grievously the hypocrites themselves will be punished, seeing that the earth itself, which cannot sin, will be made waste because of their wickedness.(:note) their doings.

geneva@Zephaniah:3:11 @ In that day shalt thou not be ashamed for (note:)For they will have full remission of their sins, and the hypocrites who boasted of the temple, which was also your pride in times past, will be taken from you.(:note) all thy doings, wherein thou hast transgressed against me: for then I will take away out of the midst of thee them that rejoice in thy pride, and thou shalt no more be haughty because of my holy mountain.

geneva@Zechariah:11:5 @ Whose possessors slay them, and hold themselves (note:)Their governors destroy them without any remorse of conscience, or yet thinking that they do evil.(:note) not guilty: and they that sell them say, He notes the hypocrites, who always have the name of God in their mouths, though in their life and doings they deny God, attributing their gain to God's blessings, which comes from the wealth of their brethren. Blessed [be] the LORD; for I am rich: and their own shepherds pity them not.

geneva@Zechariah:14:5 @ And ye shall flee [to] the (note:)He speaks of the hypocrites, who could not abide God's presence, but would flee into all places, where they might hide themselves among the mountains.(:note) valley of the mountains; for the valley of the mountains shall reach to Azal: yea, ye shall flee, as ye fled from before the Read (Amo_1:1). earthquake in the days of Uzziah king of Judah: and the LORD Because they did not credit the Prophet's words, he turns to God and comforts himself in that that he knew that these things would come, and says, «You, O God, with your angels will come to perform this great thing.» my God shall come, [and] all the saints with thee.

geneva@Zechariah:14:21 @ Yea, every pot in Jerusalem and in Judah shall be holiness to the LORD of hosts: and all they that sacrifice shall come and take of them, and boil in them: and in that day there shall be no more the (note:)But all will be pure and clean, and there will neither by hypocrites, nor any that will corrupt the true service of God.(:note) Canaanite in the house of the LORD of hosts.

geneva@Malachi:3:2 @ But who (note:)He shows that the hypocrites who wish so much for the Lord's coming will not remain when he draws near: for he will consume them, and purge his own and make them clean.(:note) may abide the day of his coming? and who shall stand when he appeareth? for he [is] like a refiner's fire, and like fullers' soap:

geneva@Matthew:6:2 @ Therefore when thou doest [thine] alms, do not sound a trumpet before thee, as the (note:)Counterfeits, for hypocrites were players that played a part in a play.(:note) hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may have glory of men. Verily I say unto you, They have their reward.

geneva@Matthew:16:3 @ And in the morning, [It will be] foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O [ye] hypocrites, ye can discern the (note:)The outward show and countenance, as it were, of all things, is called in the Hebrew language, a face.(:note) face of the sky; but can ye not [discern] the signs of the times?

geneva@Matthew:22:18 @ But Iesus perceiued their wickednes, and sayd, Why tempt ye me, ye hypocrites?

geneva@Matthew:23:15 @ Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and (note:)The dry part: now that part of the earth is called dry which the Lord has given to us to live upon.(:note) land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.

geneva@Matthew:23:27 @ Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye are like vnto whited tombes, which appeare beautifull outward, but are within full of dead mens bones, and all filthines.

geneva@Matthew:24:51 @ And shall (note:)That is, from the rest, or will cut him into two pieces, which was a most cruel kind of punishment: with which, as Justin Martyr witnesses, Isaiah the Prophet was executed by the Jews: the same kind of punishment we read of in (1Sa_15:33) and (Dan_3:29).(:note) cut him asunder, and appoint [him] his portion with the hypocrites: there shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth.

geneva@Luke:12:56 @ Hypocrites, ye can discerne the face of the earth, and of the skie: but why discerne ye not this time?

geneva@Acts:24:1 @ And (note:)Hypocrites, when they can not do what they want to do by force and deceit, at length they go about to accomplish it by a show of law.(:note) after five days Ananias the high priest descended with the elders, and [with] a certain orator [named] Tertullus, who informed the governor against Paul.