Difference between Pious and Pharisaical

PIOUS vs PHARISAICAL: ADJECTIVE

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

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.
Dictated by reverence for God; proceeding from piety: said of things: as, pious awe; pious services; pious sorrow.
Practised under the pretense of religion or for a good end: as, pious frauds.
Religious, holy, righteous, saintly. See religion.

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

Churchly, Romish, Unbiblical, Levitical, Righteous, Unscriptural, Religionist, Antinomian, Holier than thou, Pietistical, Self righteous, Pharisaic, Pious, Sanctimonious, Pietistic

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

Churchly, Romish, Unbiblical, Levitical, Righteous, Unscriptural, Religionist, Antinomian, Self righteous, Pietistical, Pharisaic, Holier than thou, Pious, Sanctimonious, Pietistic

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.

Calgary police, who continue the hypocritical and pharisaical pretence of being zealous in extirpating public vice by the secret adoption of the same vice.
William Bennett and his pharisaical followers have profited from books and lectures decrying the lack of moral outrage in our nation against Bill Clinton.
But lets not get too Pharisaical about translations and put more of our trust in Holy Spirit to bring out the correct understanding anyway.
An enduring tale of the interplay between Pharisaical legalism and the gospel of grace.
Some Christians believe that to declare homosexual behavior as sinful amounts to Pharisaical judgmentalism.
He told the Pharisaical Jews that their father was the Devil.
There is great danger of becoming pharisaical, and making religion consist in externals.
I often feel this way whenever people act pharisaical.
Pharisees, this was a problem with the pharisaical system.
SYN: Pharisaical, sanctimonious, smug, smooth, mealy, unctuous, mincing.