Matthew 15:7-9

15:7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,

15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart ¹  is far from me,

15:9 and they worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’” ² 

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¹ tn The term “heart” is a collective singular in the Greek text.

² sn A quotation from Isa 29:13.