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 said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,

So being in disagreement with one another, they began to leave [after] Paul made one statement: "The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through the prophet Isaiah to your fathers,

Hypocrites

"But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees--hypocrites!--because you shut the kingdom of heaven before people! For you do not enter, nor permit those wanting to go in to enter.

But the Lord said to him, "Now you Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the dish, but your inside is full of greediness and wickedness.

Honoureth

And they come to you {as people do}, and they sit {before you}, and my people hear your words, and they do not do them, for they [are] showing passion in their mouth, but their heart [is] going after ill-gotten gain.

They cry out to me, "My God! We, Israel, know you!"

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

You are doing the deeds of your father!" They said to him, "We were not born from sexual immorality! We have one father, God!"

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

maintaining a form of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid these [people].

They profess to know God, but by their deeds they deny [him], [because they] are detestable and disobedient, and unfit for every good deed.

What [is] the benefit, my brothers, if someone says [that he] has faith but does not have works? That faith [is] not able to save him, [is it]?