Matthew 15:7 · KJV
“{Ye} hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,”
— Matthew 15:7
And honour not his father or his mother, {he shall be free}. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with {their} lips; but their heart is far from me.
Matthew 15 — Context
But ye say, Whosoever shall say to {his} father or {his} mother, {It is} a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
6And honour not his father or his mother, {he shall be free}. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
7{Ye} hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with {their} lips; but their heart is far from me.
9But in vain they do worship me, teaching {for} doctrines the commandments of men.
Cross References
Mark 7:6
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.
Matthew 23:23-29
Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye pay tithe of mint and anise and cummin, and have omitted the weightier {matters} of the law, judgment, mercy, and faith: these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone. {anise: Gr. dill}
Acts 28:25-27
And when they agreed not among themselves, they departed, after that Paul had spoken one word, Well spake the Holy Ghost by Esaias the prophet unto our fathers,
Matthew 7:5
Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.