8This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.
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Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
And they come unto thee as the people cometh, and they sit before thee as my people, and they hear thy words, but they will not do them: for with their mouth they shew much love, but their heart goeth after their covetousness.
Thou hast neither part nor lot in this matter: for thy heart is not right in the sight of God.
For he that will love life, and see good days, let him refrain his tongue from evil, and his lips that they speak no guile:
Take heed, brethren, lest there be in any of you an evil heart of unbelief, in departing from the living God.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. The intemperate heat of the Jewish teachers for the support of their hierarchy, occasioned many excellent discourses of our Saviour’s for the settling of the truth, as here. I. Here, is the cavil of the scribes and Pharisees at Christ’s disciples, for eating with unwashen hands . The scribes and Pharisees were the great men of the Jewish church, men whose gai…
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