Mark 7:6

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

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.

Well

Isaiah 29:13

Matthew 15:7

Acts 28:25

Hypocrites

Matthew 23:13

Luke 11:39

Honoureth

Bible References

Well

And the Lord saith: Because drawn near hath this people, with its mouth, And with its lips they have honoured Me, And its heart it hath put far off from Me, And their fear of Me is -- A precept of men is taught!

'Hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

And not being agreed with one another, they were going away, Paul having spoken one word -- 'Well did the Holy Spirit speak through Isaiah the prophet unto our fathers,

Hypocrites

'Woe to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye shut up the reign of the heavens before men, for ye do not go in, nor those going in do ye suffer to enter.

And the Lord said unto him, 'Now do ye, the Pharisees, the outside of the cup and of the plate make clean, but your inward part is full of rapine and wickedness;

Honoureth

And they come in unto thee as the coming in of a people, And they sit before thee -- My people, And have heard thy words, and they do them not, For doting loves with their mouth they are making, After their dishonest gain their heart is going.

To Me they cry, 'My God, we -- Israel -- have known Thee.'

but I have known you, that the love of God ye have not in yourselves.

ye do the works of your father.' They said, therefore, to him, 'We of whoredom have not been born; one Father we have -- God;'

if I did not do among them the works that no other hath done, they were not having sin, and now they have both seen and hated both me and my Father;

having a form of piety, and its power having denied; and from these be turning away,

God they profess to know, and in the works they deny Him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work disapproved.

What is the profit, my brethren, if faith, any one may speak of having, and works he may not have? is that faith able to save him?