Catholic Public Domain Version
"‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. "
— Matthew 15:8, Catholic Public Domain Version
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
“ This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me. ”
“'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
“‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,”
“This people honoureth me with their lips: but their heart is far from me.”
“These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.”
“This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.”
But you say: ‘If anyone will have said to father or mother, “It is dedicated, so that whatever is from me will benefit you,”
then he shall not honor his father or his mother.’ So have you nullified the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition.
Hypocrites! How well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
For in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.’ ”
And having called the multitudes to him, he said to them: “Listen and understand.
A man is not defiled by what enters into the mouth, but by what proceeds from the mouth. This is what defiles a man.”