Difference between Pious and Pharisaic

PIOUS vs PHARISAIC: ADJECTIVE

Having or showing or expressing reverence for a deity
Earnestly compliant in the observance of religion; reverent or devout.
Showing or characterized by religious devotion.
Expressive of or used in religious devotion; devotional.
Done for the benefit of others or with the intention of encouraging good.
Sincere but wishful or far-fetched.
Self-righteous or sanctimonious.
Professing or exhibiting traditional morality; dutiful.
Of or pertaining to piety; exhibiting piety; reverential; dutiful; religious; devout; godly.
Practiced under the pretext of religion; prompted by mistaken piety
Devoutly religious

Excessively or hypocritically pious
Of, relating to, or characteristic of the Pharisees.
Hypocritically self-righteous and condemnatory.
Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; resembling the Pharisees.
Addicted to external forms and ceremonies; making a show of religion without the spirit of it; ceremonial; formal; hypocritical; self-righteous.
Of or pertaining to the Pharisees.
Emphasizing the observance of ritual or practice over the meaning.
Self-righteous.

Having or exhibiting due respect and affection for parents or others to whom respect and affection are due; also, pertaining to or consisting in the duties of respect and affection toward parents or others.
Having faith in and reverence for the Supreme Being; actuated by faith in and reverence for God; godly; devout: said of persons.
Religious, holy, righteous, saintly. See religion.
Practised under the pretense of religion or for a good end: as, pious frauds.
Dictated by reverence for God; proceeding from piety: said of things: as, pious awe; pious services; pious sorrow.

Of or pertaining to the Pharisees; addicted, like the Pharisees, to observance of the external forms and ceremonies of religion without regard to its spirit or essence; hence, formal; hypocritical.

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Mishnaic, Rabbinical, Talmudic literature, Talmudic, Mishnic, Pharisean, Hypocritical, Rabbinic, Pietistic, Holier than thou, Self righteous, Sanctimonious, Pietistical, Pharisaical, Pious

Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, God fearing, Devotional, Worshipful, Prayerful, Reverent, Religious, Pharisaical, Godly, Sanctimonious, Pietistic, Devout

Mishnaic, Rabbinical, Talmudic literature, Talmudic, Mishnic, Pharisean, Rabbinic, Hypocritical, Self righteous, Sanctimonious, Pious, Pietistical, Pietistic, Pharisaical, Holier than thou

The qadis were usually pious specialists in Islam.
It was miri land of which the State revenues were dedicated to pious uses or the usufruct of which was dedicated to pious foundations.
One IFI targets the moderately pious consumer segment while the other targets the highly pious segment.
Joseph of Arimathea was likely a pious Jewish leader who was acting as a pious Jew in the burial of Christ.
Eventually he comes to the conclusion that what makes pious things pious is the fact that all the gods love it.
Charles was well educated and knew many languages, was just, pious and godfearing, loving the pious and hating evil.
If they were not pious and were embroiled in bad practices how could they seek pious wives?
Mahmood discusses how pious women acquire their identity of being pious by appropriating socially authorized forms of performativity.
We are to be pious, then, as pious as children, but not ignorant.
Baykal went on to say that the prime minister discriminates between pious and non-pious people.

The Greeks had no susceptibility for this rigid, Pharisaic Judaism.
Others claim there was a separate sadducean and pharisaic sanhedrin.
Torah, only in this case, a Pharisaic opinion regarding purity.
They were almost exclusively of the powerful Pharisaic party.
Torah tradition compared to the law of Pharisaic Judaism.
This was an outgrowth of Pharisaic or Judaistic influence.
Matthew and his Pharisaic opponents are competing for influence.
Bible College Education without the Church or Pharisaic Leaven.
Christian Relations: Matthean Community History as Pharisaic Intragroup Conflict.
Pharisaic penalty for perjury, that is, the lash.