This is a people that honors me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

"Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, hypocrites," he answered. "As it is written, 'This people honor me with their lips, While their hearts are far from me;

Their throat is an open grave; With their tongues they have used deceit. The venom of asps is under their lips.

In the Law it is written. With men of other tongues, and by the lips of strangers, will I speak to this people, and even then they will not listen to me, says the Lord.

In his name, then, let us continually offer up a sacrifice of praise to God, that is the fruit of lips that confess his name.