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Verse	Translation	Text
Mt 15:8	Strong Concordance	This [3778] people [2992] draweth nigh [1448] unto me [3427] with their [846] mouth [4750], and [2532] honoureth [5091] me [3165] with their lips [5491]; but [1161] their [846] heart [2588] is [568] far [4206] from [575] me [1700].
	King James	This 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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A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]
This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, &c.--By putting the commandments of men on a level with the divine requirements, their whole worship was rendered vain--a principle of deep moment in the service of God. "For," it is added in Mar 7:8, "laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do." The drivelling nature of their multitudinous observances is here pointedly exposed, in contrast with the manly observance of "the commandment of God"; and when our Lord says, "Many other such like things ye do," it is implied that He had but given a specimen of the hideous treatment which the divine law received, and the grasping disposition which, under the mask of piety, was manifested by the ecclesiastics of that day.

A Commentary, Critical, Practical, and Explanatory on the Old and New Testaments, by Robert Jamieson, A.R. Fausset and David Brown [1882]

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, &c.--By putting the commandments of men on a level with the divine requirements, their whole worship was rendered vain--a principle of deep moment in the service of God. "For," it is added in Mar 7:8, "laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups; and many other such like things ye do." The drivelling nature of their multitudinous observances is here pointedly exposed, in contrast with the manly observance of "the commandment of God"; and when our Lord says, "Many other such like things ye do," it is implied that He had but given a specimen of the hideous treatment which the divine law received, and the grasping disposition which, under the mask of piety, was manifested by the ecclesiastics of that day.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]
Is far (ἀπέχει) Lit., holds off from me.

Vincent's Word Studies, by Marvin R. Vincent [1886]

Is far (ἀπέχει)

Lit., holds off from me.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]
Their heart is far from me - And without this all outward worship is mere mockery of God. Isa 29:13.

Explanatory Notes on the Whole Bible, by John Wesley [1754-65]

Their heart is far from me - And without this all outward worship is mere mockery of God. Isa 29:13.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826
Their heart is far from me - The true worship of God consists in the union of the heart to him - where this exists not, a particle of the spirit of devotion cannot be found. This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth - This clause, which is taken from Isa 29:13, is omitted by several excellent MSS., and by several versions and fathers. Erasmus, Mill, Drusius, and Bengel, approve of the omission, and Griesbach has left it out of the text; but as I find it in the prophet, the place from which it is quoted, I dare not omit it, howsoever respectable the above authorities may appear.

Adam Clarke Commentary on the Whole Bible - Published 1810-1826

Their heart is far from me - The true worship of God consists in the union of the heart to him - where this exists not, a particle of the spirit of devotion cannot be found.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth - This clause, which is taken from Isa 29:13, is omitted by several excellent MSS., and by several versions and fathers. Erasmus, Mill, Drusius, and Bengel, approve of the omission, and Griesbach has left it out of the text; but as I find it in the prophet, the place from which it is quoted, I dare not omit it, howsoever respectable the above authorities may appear.

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