 | Thomas Russell Sullivan, David Reed - Sermons - 1831 - 428 pages
...their doings obtained no higher character from the Searcher of hearts than this : ' they draw nigh to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their hearts are far from me.' Do you inquire the cause of this ? It is to be found in a deficiency of the... | |
 | William Stillman - Seventh-Day Baptists - 1852 - 216 pages
...said that a man may be a very moral man, and yet not be a christian. As it was once said of Israel, " This people draw nigh unto me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me." — Thus it would seem that a man might strictly observe all the external rules of... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1856 - 1210 pages
...God with those insincere and undevout prayers which He reproves, saying : * These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me' " (Isa. xxix. 13). 3. Reverence is, 1. Inwardly — that profound sense of the awful... | |
 | James Gibbons - 1891 - 506 pages
...It is true, that God uttered this complaint against the children of Israel : " This people draw near Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me." ' It is also true that He was displeased with their sacrifices and religious festivals."... | |
 | Jabez Thomas Sunderland, Brooke Herford, Frederick B. Mott - Liberalism (Religion) - 1894 - 608 pages
...are enacted with fatal facility by uncounted millions who are made no better. "This people draw nigh with their mouth, and honor me with their lips ; but their heart is far from me." Even the priest at the altar may be self-deceived, as he handles the consecrated vessels... | |
 | Elizabeth Czarnomska - Bible - 1924 - 480 pages
...hath closed your ears, and covered your hands. Thus saith Yahweh: Forasmuch as this people draw near Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart they keep from Me, and their fear of Me is but a precept of men, learned by rote; therefore, behold,... | |
 | John Calvin - Religion - 904 pages
...extend farther, also are concerned with reproving this fault. ""The people," he says, "draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, and they have feared me by the command and teaching of men." [Isa. 29:13; cf.... | |
 | Johanna Manley - Religion - 1990 - 1144 pages
...your tradition. 7 "Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying: 8 These people draw near to B#56, pp. 33-34. Also see Wednesday, 6th Week after Pentecost. MAT is far from Me. 9 And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'" 10... | |
 | Elliott E. Johnson - Religion - 1999 - 340 pages
...illustrate this aspect of a particular reference, consider Isaiah 29:13: "These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men." 204 Caird comments... | |
 | J. I. Packer, Loren Wilkinson - Religion - 1992 - 332 pages
...indeed degenerated into the purely rational, excluding the religious feeling: These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me [Tifc CHKT - "their fearing me"] is made up only of rules... | |
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These people come near to me with their mouth and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship of me is made up only of rules taught by men. 
