 | 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 social virtues. That people... | |
 | China - 1836 - 604 pages
...life a commentary on their prayers. If not, the charge is irresistible; " This people draw nigh unto me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me." How often, Oh! how often, m their prayers, Christians ask the most exalted and... | |
 | Joseph Belcher - Baptists - 1850 - 500 pages
...or well spoken, do not constitute prayer. And the complaint of God of his own Israel is, that " they honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me." And also the lesson given by the Saviour in his account of the Pharisee, Luke 18, 11, "The Pharisee stood... | |
 | William Stillman - Seventh-Day Baptists - 1852 - 216 pages
...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... | |
 | 1855 - 468 pages
...Wherefore the Lord saith, Forasmuch as this people draweth nigh me with their mouths, and glorilieth me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me, and they have rather feared the commandments of men, and have cleaved to their doctrines : behold, therefore, I will... | |
 | Catholic Church - 1856 - 1210 pages
...displeasure of 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... | |
 | 1857 - 1050 pages
...lifeless custom of saying Pfayere that freeze upon the 'lips. God hath said of some, ' This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.' 'Their lifted eyes salute the skies, Their bended knees the ground. But God abhors the sacrifico Where... | |
 | John Hopkins Morison - Bible - 1861 - 560 pages
...one of their prophets falls on them : " Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said, This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. But in vain do they worship me teaching for doctrine the commandments of men." Dr. Noyes's trauslation... | |
 | James Roberts Gilmore - Bible - 1867 - 290 pages
...of the world." commands of God? Hypocrites! well do the words of Isaiah apply to you. ' This people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. But in vain' do they worship me. teaching for truths the commandments of men.' For you neglect the... | |
 | Emanuel Swedenborg - New Jerusalem Church - 1873 - 1024 pages
...is what the Lord observes in Mark : " Well hath Esaias prophesied of you, hypocrites ! These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me" (vii. 6); and in Matthew: '"Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites ! for ye make clean the... | |
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These people come near to me with 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. 
