Matthew 15:8

Geneva Bible (1560)

This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me.

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  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,
  • Acts 8:21 : 21 Thou hast neither part nor fellowship in this businesse: for thine heart is not right in the sight of God.
  • Jer 12:2 : 2 Thou hast planted them, and they haue taken roote: they grow, and bring forth fruite: thou art neere in their mouth, and farre from their reines.
  • Ezek 33:31 : 31 For they come vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they will not doe them: for with their mouthes they make iestes, and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.
  • John 1:47 : 47 Iesus sawe Nathanael comming to him, and saide of him, Beholde in deede an Israelite, in whom is no guile.
  • Heb 3:12 : 12 Take heede, brethren, least at any time there be in any of you an euill heart, and vnfaithfull, to depart away from the liuing God.
  • 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For if any man long after life, and to see good dayes, let him refraine his tongue from euill, and his lippes that they speake no guile.
  • Prov 23:26 : 26 My sonne, giue mee thine heart, and let thine eyes delite in my wayes.

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  • Mark 7:6-9
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    6Then hee answered and sayd vnto them, Surely Esay hath prophecied well of you, hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth mee with lippes, but their heart is farre away from me.

    7But they worship me in vaine, teaching for doctrines the commandements of men.

    8For ye lay the commaundement of God apart, and obserue the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and of cups, and many other such like things ye doe.

    9And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition.

  • Isa 29:13
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    13Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,

  • Matt 15:9-11
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    9But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.

    10Then hee called the multitude vnto him, and said to them, Heare and vnderstand.

    11That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

  • Matt 15:5-7
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    5But ye say, Whosoeuer shal say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,

    6Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commaundement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

    7O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

  • Ezek 33:31
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    31For they come vnto thee, as the people vseth to come: and my people sit before thee, and heare thy wordes, but they will not doe them: for with their mouthes they make iestes, and their heart goeth after their couetousnesse.

  • Matt 15:18-20
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    18But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

    19For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

    20These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

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    15Then he sayde vnto them, Yee are they, which iustifie your selues before men: but God knoweth your heartes: for that which is highly esteemed among men, is abomination in the sight of God.

  • Matt 13:14-15
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    14So in them is fulfilled the prophecie of Esaias, which prophecie saieth, By hearing, ye shall heare, and shall not vnderstand, and seeing, ye shal see, and shall not perceiue.

    15For this peoples heart is waxed fat, & their eares are dull of hearing, and with their eyes they haue winked, lest they should see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, & should vnderstand with their hearts, & should returne, that I might heale them.

  • Matt 23:28
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    28So are ye also: for outwarde ye appeare righteous vnto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisie and iniquitie.

  • Ps 12:2
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    2They speake deceitfully euery one with his neighbour, flattering with their lips, and speake with a double heart.

  • Matt 23:3-6
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    3All therefore whatsoeuer they bid you obserue, that obserue and doe: but after their workes doe not: for they say, and doe not.

    4For they binde heauie burdens, & grieuous to be borne, and lay them on mens shoulders, but they themselues will not moue them with one of their fingers.

    5All their workes they doe for to be seene of men: for they make their phylacteries broad, and make long the frindges of their garments,

    6And loue the chiefe place at feastes, and to haue the chiefe seates in the assemblies,

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    43For they loued the prayse of men, more then the prayse of God.

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    8They eate vp the sinnes of my people, and lift vp their mindes in their iniquitie.

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    25Wo be to you, Scribes and Pharises, hypocrites: for ye make cleane the vtter side of the cup, and of the platter: but within they are ful of briberie and excesse.

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    9For no constancie is in their mouth: within, they are very corruption: their throte is an open sepulchre, and they flatter with their tongue.

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    46But why call ye me Lord, Lord, and do not the things that I speake?

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    16Moreouer, when ye fast, looke not sowre as the hypocrites: for they disfigure their faces, that they might seeme vnto men to fast. Verely I say vnto you, that they haue their rewarde.

  • Matt 6:1-2
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    1Take heede that ye giue not your almes before men, to be seene of them, or els ye shall haue no reward of your Father which is in heaue.

    2Therefore when thou giuest thine almes, thou shalt not make a trumpet to be blowen before thee, as the hypocrites doe in the Synagogues and in the streetes, to be praysed of men. Verely I say vnto you, they haue their rewarde.

  • Acts 28:26-27
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    26Saying, Goe vnto this people, and say, By hearing ye shal heare, & shal not vnderstand, and seeing ye shall see, and not perceiue.

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    8But what sayth it? The worde is neere thee, euen in thy mouth, and in thine heart. This is the worde of faith which we preach.

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    1Then came to Iesus the Scribes and Pharises, which were of Hierusalem, saying,

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    3But he answered & said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commaundement of God by your tradition?

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    24Put away from thee a froward mouth, and put wicked lippes farre from thee.

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    11For with a stammering tongue and with a strange language shall he speake vnto this people.

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    7For as though he thought it in his heart, so will hee say vnto thee, Eate and drinke: but his heart is not with thee.

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    23But this people hath an vnfaithfull and rebellious heart: they are departed and gone.

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    13Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.

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    9And he sayd, Goe, and say vnto this people, Ye shall heare in deede, but ye shall not vnderstand: ye shall plainely see, and not perceiue.

    10Make the heart of this people fatte, make their eares heauie, and shut their eyes, lest they see with their eyes, and heare with their eares, and vnderstand with their hearts, and conuert, and he heale them.

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    6Thine habitation is in the middes of deceiuers: because of their deceit they refuse to know me, sayth the Lord.