Every time I hear stories about modern day Pharisees, I'm reminded of these passages:
Galatians 2:4 And that because of false brethren unawares brought in, who came in privily to spy out our liberty which we have in Christ Jesus, that they might bring us into bondage:
Galatians 4:21 Tell me, ye that desire to be under the law, do ye not hear the law?
22 For it is written, that
Abraham had two sons, the one by a bondmaid, the other by a
freewoman.
23 But he who was of the
bondwoman was born after the
flesh; but he of the
freewoman was by promise.
24 Which things are an allegory: for these are the two covenants;
the one from the mount Sinai, which gendereth to bondage, which is Agar.
25 For this Agar is mount Sinai in Arabia, and answereth to Jerusalem which now is, and is in bondage with her children.
26 But Jerusalem which is above is free, which is the mother of us all.
Galatians 5:1 Stand fast therefore in the liberty wherewith Christ hath made us free, and be not entangled again with the yoke of bondage.