NET Bible
"‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,"
— Matthew 15:8, NET Bible
“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 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 someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,
and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.
What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”