8" 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.


In Context

5 But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is a gift devoted to God,'

6 he is not to 'honor his father ' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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

8 " 'These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are but rules taught by men.' "

10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.

Matthew 15:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with [their] lips; but their heart is far from me.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

15:8This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

15:8This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

15:8This people honoureth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8This people draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

15:8This people doth draw nigh to Me with their mouth, and with the lips it doth honour Me, but their heart is far off from Me;

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

15:8This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.