Matthew 15:7
5 But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’
6 he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
8 ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
9 They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
- KJV
- Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
- WEB
- You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
- ASV
- Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
- DARBY
- Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,
- BLB
- Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you⁺, saying:
- ÅB
- «Hyklere! Jesaja spådde rett om dere da han sa: ‘Dette folket ærer meg med leppene, men hjertene deres er langt borte fra meg; de dyrker meg forgjeves når de underviser menneskebud.’»
- OTB
- Hyklere! Jesaja hadde rett da han profeterte om dere:
- B1930
- I hyklere! rett spådde Esaias om eder da han sa:
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 7:6
Jesus answered them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: ‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.
Read in contextMatthew 23:23–29
Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You pay tithes of mint, dill, and cumin. But you have disregarded the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faithfulness. You should have practiced the latter, without neglecting the former.
Read in contextActs 28:25–27
They disagreed among themselves and began to leave after Paul had made this final statement: “The Holy Spirit was right when He spoke to your fathers through Isaiah the prophet:
Read in contextMatthew 7:5
You hypocrite! First take the beam out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
Read in context