2 So when you make gifts of mercy,+ do not blow a trumpet ahead of you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, so that they may be glorified by men.+ Truly I say to you, they have their reward in full.

27 “Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites!+ because you resemble whitewashed graves,+ which outwardly indeed appear beautiful but inside are full of dead men’s bones and of every sort of uncleanness. 28 In the same way, on the outside you appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.+

29 But wanting to prove himself righteous,+ the man said to Jesus: “Who really is my neighbor?”

9 He also told this illustration to some who trusted in their own righteousness+ and who considered others as nothing: