Mark 7:6 - Tree of Life Version

⁶ And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ But He said to them, Excellently and truly [so that there will be no room for blame] did Isaiah prophesy of you, the pretenders and hypocrites, as it stands written: These people [constantly] honor Me with their lips, but their hearts hold off and are far distant from Me.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

Common English Bible

⁶ He replied, “Isaiah really knew what he was talking about when he prophesied about you hypocrites. He wrote, This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far away from me.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ But in response, he said to them: "So well did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, just as it has been written: 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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.

Mark 7:6 Cross References

Isaiah 29:13

So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.

Ezekiel 33:31

So they come to you, as people come, and sit before you as My people and hear your words—but they do not do them—for with their mouth they express doting love, but their heart goes after their own dishonest gain.

John 15:24

If I had not done works among them that no one else did, they would have no sin. But now they have seen and have hated both Me and My Father.

John 5:42

But I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.

Acts 28:25

So when they disagreed among themselves, they began leaving after Paul had said one last statement: “The Ruach ha-Kodesh rightly spoke through Isaiah the prophet to your fathers,

2 Timothy 3:5

holding to an outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid these people!

Titus 1:16

They claim to know God but their deeds deny Him. They are despicable and disobedient and worthless for any good deed.