The giving is public. The prayer is noticed. The outside looks holy while the inside stays uncleansed.
Jesus exposed that show. He is the way, the truth, and the life, and that truth is freedom from all bondages, including hypocrisy.
“Take heed that ye do not your alms before men, to be seen of them: otherwise ye have no reward of your Father which is in heaven.”
Matthew 6:1 · KJV
“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.”
Matthew 23:27 · KJV
“If the Son therefore shall make you free, ye shall be free indeed.”
John 8:36 · KJV
If religion has been a mask, come to the Son who makes the inside free indeed.
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