Matthew 15:8

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

Cross References

Acts 8:21

You do not have any share or involvement in this matter because your heart is not right before God.

1 Peter 3:10

For [Psalm 39:12 says], “The person who loves [his] life and wants to have happy days, should avoid saying anything bad or deceptive.

Hebrews 3:12

Pay attention, brothers, so that there will not be in any one of you an evil heart of unbelief, [resulting] in falling away from the living God.

John 1:47

[As] Jesus saw Nathaniel coming toward Him, He said [this] about him, “Look, [there is] a true Israelite, a completely honest man!”

Matthew 15:7

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

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.

John 5:23

so that everyone will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The person who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent Him.