Matthew 15:7

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you, saying [Isa. 29:13],

Cross References

Mark 7:6

And He answered them, “Isaiah prophesied about you hypocrites very well when he wrote [Isa. 29:13], ‘These people honor me with their lips [i.e., by what they say], but their heart is far from [honoring] me.

Matthew 7:5

You hypocrite, take the board out of your own eye first; and then you will be able to see clearly enough to take the speck of sawdust out of your brother’s eye.

Matthew 15:6

this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

Matthew 15:8

‘These people [claim to] honor me with their lips [i.e., by what they say], but their heart is far from [honoring] me.