Matthew 15:8
Good News Translation
'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

New Revised Standard Version
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

Contemporary English Version
"All of you praise me with your words, but you never really think about me.

New American Bible
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;

Douay-Rheims Bible
This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

draweth.

Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Ezekiel 33:31 And they come to thee, as if people were coming in, and my people sit before thee: and hear thy words, and do them not: for they turn them into a song of their mouth, and their heart goeth after their covetousness.

John 1:47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming to him and he saith of him: Behold an Israelite indeed, in whom there is no guile.

1 Peter 3:10 For he that will love life and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile.

but.

Proverbs 23:26 My son, give me thy heart: and let thy eyes keep my ways.

Jeremiah 12:2 Thou hast planted them, and they have taken root: they prosper and bring forth fruit: thou art near in their mouth, and far from their reins.

Acts 8:21 Thou hast no part nor lot in this matter. For thy heart is not right in the sight of God.

Hebrews 3:12 Take heed, brethren, lest perhaps there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, to depart from the living God.

Context
Tradition and Worship
7Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying: 8This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me. 9And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.…
Cross References
Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Matthew 15:7
Hypocrites, well hath Isaias prophesied of you, saying:

Mark 7:6
But he answering, said to them: Well did Isaias prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written: This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

John 5:23
That all men may honour the Son, as they honour the Father. He who honoureth not the Son honoureth not the Father who hath sent him.

Matthew 15:7
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