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

Then the Lord said: "Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, worship of me has become merely like rules taught by human beings.

You hypocrites! How well did Isaiah prophesy of you when he said,

They disagreed with one another as they were leaving, so Paul added this statement: "The Holy Spirit was so right when he spoke to your ancestors through the prophet Isaiah!

Hypocrites

"How terrible it will be for you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the door to the kingdom from heaven in people's faces. You don't go in yourselves, and you don't allow those who are trying to enter to go in.

But the Lord told him, "Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but on the inside you are full of greed and evil.

Honoureth

Then they come to you as a group, sit down right in front of you as if they were my people, hear your words and then they don't do what you say because they're seeking only their own desires, they pursue ill-gotten profits, and they keep following their own self-interests.

They cry out to me, "God, we of Israel acknowledge you.'

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

You are doing your father's actions." They told him, "We're not illegitimate children. We have one Father, God himself."

If I hadn't done among them the actions that no one else did, they wouldn't have any sin. But now they have seen and hated both me and my Father.

They will hold to an outward form of godliness but deny its power. Stay away from such people.

They claim to know God, but they deny him by their actions. They are detestable, disobedient, and disqualified to do anything good.

What good does it do, my brothers, if someone claims to have faith but does not prove it with actions? This kind of faith cannot save him, can it?