Matthew 15:8
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,
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Referenced Verses
- Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
- Acts 8:21 : 21 You have no share or part in this matter because your heart is not right before God!
- Jer 12:2 : 2 You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.
- Ezek 33:31 : 31 They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.
- John 1:47 : 47 Jesus saw Nathanael coming toward him and exclaimed,“Look, a true Israelite in whom there is no deceit!”
- Heb 3:12 : 12 See to it, brothers and sisters, that none of you has an evil, unbelieving heart that forsakes the living God.
- 1 Pet 3:10 : 10 For the one who wants to love life and see good days must keep his tongue from evil and his lips from uttering deceit.
- Prov 23:26 : 26 Give me your heart, my son, and let your eyes observe my ways;
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6He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
8Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
9He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
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13The Lord says,“These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
- Matt 15:9-113 verses83%
9and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.
11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
- Matt 15:5-73 verses81%
5But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
6he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
7Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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31They come to you in crowds, and they sit in front of you as my people. They hear your words, but do not obey them. For they talk lustfully, and their heart is set on their own advantage.
- Matt 15:18-203 verses74%
18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.
19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
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15But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
- Matt 13:14-152 verses71%
14And concerning them the prophecy of Isaiah is fulfilled that says:‘You will listen carefully yet will never understand, you will look closely yet will never comprehend.
15For the heart of this people has become dull; they are hard of hearing, and they have shut their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their hearts and turn, and I would heal them.’
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28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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2People lie to one another; they flatter and deceive.
- Matt 23:3-64 verses69%
3Therefore pay attention to what they tell you and do it. But do not do what they do, for they do not practice what they teach.
4They tie up heavy loads, hard to carry, and put them on men’s shoulders, but they themselves are not willing even to lift a finger to move them.
5They do all their deeds to be seen by people, for they make their phylacteries wide and their tassels long.
6They love the place of honor at banquets and the best seats in the synagogues
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43For they loved praise from men more than praise from God.
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8They feed on the sin offerings of my people; their appetites long for their iniquity!
- Matt 23:25-262 verses68%
25“Woe to you, experts in the law and you 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, so that the outside may become clean too!
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9For they do not speak the truth; their stomachs are like the place of destruction, their throats like an open grave, their tongues like a steep slope leading into it.
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46“Why do you call me‘Lord, Lord,’ and don’t do what I tell you?
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16Proper Fasting“When you fast, do not look sullen like the hypocrites, for they make their faces unattractive so that people will see them fasting. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
- Matt 6:1-22 verses68%
1Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
2Thus whenever you do charitable giving, do not blow a trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in synagogues and on streets so that people will praise them. I tell you the truth, they have their reward!
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26when he said,‘Go to this people and say,“You will keep on hearing, but will never understand, and you will keep on looking, but will never perceive.
27For the heart of this people has become dull, and their ears are hard of hearing, and they have closed their eyes, so that they would not see with their eyes and hear with their ears and understand with their heart and turn, and I would heal them.”’
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8But what does it say?“The word is near you, in your mouth and in your heart”(that is, the word of faith that we preach),
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1Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,
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3He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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24Remove perverse speech from your mouth; keep devious talk far from your lips.
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11For with mocking lips and a foreign tongue he will speak to these people.
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7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
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23But these people have stubborn and rebellious hearts. They have turned aside and gone their own way.
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13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
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9He said,“Go and tell these people:‘Listen continually, but don’t understand! Look continually, but don’t perceive!’
10Make the hearts of these people calloused; make their ears deaf and their eyes blind! Otherwise they might see with their eyes and hear with their ears, their hearts might understand and they might repent and be healed.”
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18For these are the kind who do not serve our Lord Christ, but their own appetites. By their smooth talk and flattery they deceive the minds of the naive.
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2You plant them like trees and they put down their roots. They grow prosperous and are very fruitful. They always talk about you, but they really care nothing about you.
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8You have despised my holy things and desecrated my Sabbaths!
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1Fear God, Not People Meanwhile, when many thousands of the crowd had gathered so that they were 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.
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6They do one act of violence after another, and one deceitful thing after another. They refuse to pay attention to me,” says the LORD.