Matthew 15:8

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‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'
  • Acts 8:21 : 21 You have no part or share in this ministry because your heart is not right before God.
  • Jer 12:2 : 2 You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are near to their lips but far from their hearts.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward Him and said about him, 'Here truly is an Israelite in whom there is no deceit!'
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has a sinful, unbelieving heart that turns away from the living God.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For the one who wants to love life and to see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from speaking deceit.
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 My son, give me your heart, and let your eyes delight in my ways.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:6-9
    4 verses
    87%

    6He answered them, "Isaiah rightly prophesied about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.'

    7They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    8You have abandoned the commandment of God and hold onto human traditions, including the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other similar things."

    9He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.

  • Isa 29:13
    85%

    13The Lord says: 'These people come near to me with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their reverence for me is based on merely human rules they have been taught.'

  • Matt 15:9-11
    3 verses
    83%

    9They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’

    10Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand:

    11What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

  • Matt 15:5-7
    3 verses
    81%

    5But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

    6they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

    7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying,

  • Ezek 33:31
    74%

    31They come to you as people come, and they sit before you as My people and hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. With their mouths they express love, but their hearts pursue unjust gain.

  • Matt 15:18-20
    3 verses
    74%

    18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these defile a person.

    19For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.

    20These are the things that defile a person, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”

  • Luke 16:15
    73%

    15Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."

  • Matt 13:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14In them is fulfilled the prophecy of Isaiah that says: 'You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive.'

    15For the heart of this people has grown dull; they can barely hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, turn back to me, and I would heal them.

  • Matt 23:28
    69%

    28So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.

  • Ps 12:2
    69%

    2Help, LORD, for the godly have vanished; the faithful have disappeared from among humanity.

  • Matt 23:3-6
    4 verses
    69%

    3So do and observe whatever they tell you, but do not do as they do, for they say things but do not practice them.

    4They tie up heavy and unbearable burdens, and place them on people's shoulders, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

    5They do all their deeds to be seen by others. They make their phylacteries broad and their tassels long.

    6They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues,

  • John 12:43
    69%

    43For they loved the approval of people more than the approval of God.

  • Hos 4:8
    69%

    8They feed on the sins of my people; they are greedy for their iniquity.

  • Matt 23:25-26
    2 verses
    68%

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean.

  • Ps 5:9
    68%

    9LORD, lead me in Your righteousness because of my enemies; make Your way straight before me.

  • Luke 6:46
    68%

    46Why do you call me 'Lord, Lord,' but do not do what I say?

  • Matt 6:16
    68%

    16When you fast, do not look somber like the hypocrites, for they disfigure their faces to show others they are fasting. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

  • Matt 6:1-2
    2 verses
    68%

    1Be careful not to practice your acts of charity before others to be seen by them. If you do, you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

    2So, when you give to the needy, do not announce it with trumpets, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and on the streets, to be honored by others. Truly, I tell you, they have received their reward in full.

  • Acts 28:26-27
    2 verses
    68%

    26'Go to this people and say, "You will indeed hear but never understand; you will indeed see but never perceive."'

    27For this people's heart has grown calloused; they hardly hear with their ears, and they have closed their eyes. Otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, understand with their hearts, and turn, and I would heal them.'

  • Rom 10:8
    68%

    8But what does it say? “The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart” (that is, the message of faith that we proclaim):

  • Matt 15:1
    68%

    1Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said,

  • Matt 15:3
    67%

    3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

  • Prov 4:24
    67%

    24Put away from you a deceitful mouth, and keep corrupt speech far from you.

  • Isa 28:11
    67%

    11Indeed, with stammering lips and another tongue, He will speak to this people.

  • Prov 23:7
    67%

    7For as he thinks within himself, so is he. He says to you, 'Eat and drink,' but his heart is not with you.

  • Jer 5:23
    67%

    23But this people has a stubborn and rebellious heart; they have turned aside and gone away.

  • Mark 7:13
    67%

    13You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

  • Isa 6:9-10
    2 verses
    67%

    9And He said, "Go, and say to this people: ‘Keep listening, but do not understand; keep looking, but do not perceive.’

    10Make the hearts of this people dull, their ears heavy, and their eyes blind; otherwise, they might see with their eyes, hear with their ears, and understand with their hearts, and turn back and be healed."

  • Rom 16:18
    67%

    18For such people are not serving our Lord Christ but their own appetites. By smooth talk and flattery, they deceive the hearts of the unsuspecting.

  • Jer 12:2
    66%

    2You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are near to their lips but far from their hearts.

  • Ezek 22:8
    66%

    8You have despised my holy things and profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Luke 12:1
    66%

    1Meanwhile, when thousands of people had gathered together, to the point of trampling on one another, Jesus began to speak first to His disciples: "Be on your guard against the yeast of the Pharisees, which is hypocrisy."

  • Jer 9:6
    66%

    6Therefore, this is what the Lord of Hosts says: Behold, I will refine them and test them, for what else can I do because of the sin of my people?