Parallel Verses
- New International Version - The Lord says: “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 based on merely human rules they have been taught.
- 新标点和合本 - 主说：“因为这百姓亲近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我； 他们敬畏我， 不过是领受人的吩咐。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-简体） - 主说：“因这百姓以口亲近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我； 他们敬畏我， 不过是领受前人的命令。
- 和合本2010（神版-简体） - 主说：“因这百姓以口亲近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我； 他们敬畏我， 不过是领受前人的命令。
- 当代译本 - 主说：“这些人嘴上亲近我， 他们用嘴唇尊崇我，心却远离我。 他们敬拜我不过是遵行人定的规条。
- 圣经新译本 - 主说： “因为这子民只用言语来亲近我， 用嘴唇尊崇我， 他们的心却远离我。 他们对我的敬畏，只是遵从传统的吩咐。
- 中文标准译本 - 主说： “因为这子民嘴上亲近我， 用嘴唇尊重我， 他们的心却远离我； 他们敬畏我，不过是遵行人所教导的规条；
- 现代标点和合本 - 主说：“因为这百姓亲近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我。 他们敬畏我， 不过是领受人的吩咐。
- 和合本（拼音版） - 主说：“因为这百姓亲近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心却远离我； 他们敬畏我， 不过是领受人的吩咐。
- New International Reader's Version - The Lord says, “These people worship me only with their words. They honor me by what they say. But their hearts are far away from me. Their worship doesn’t mean anything to me. They teach nothing but human rules that they have been taught.
- English Standard Version - And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men,
- New Living Translation - And so the Lord says, “These people say they are mine. They honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. And their worship of me is nothing but man-made rules learned by rote.
- The Message - The Master said: “These people make a big show of saying the right thing, but their hearts aren’t in it. Because they act like they’re worshiping me but don’t mean it, I’m going to step in and shock them awake, astonish them, stand them on their ears. The wise ones who had it all figured out will be exposed as fools. The smart people who thought they knew everything will turn out to know nothing.”
- Christian Standard Bible - The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
- New American Standard Bible - Then the Lord said, “Because this people approaches Me with their words And honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me, And their reverence for Me consists of the commandment of men that is taught;
- New King James Version - Therefore the Lord said: “Inasmuch as these people draw near with their mouths And honor Me with their lips, But have removed their hearts far from Me, And their fear toward Me is taught by the commandment of men,
- Amplified Bible - Then the Lord said, “Because this nation approaches [Me only] with their words And honors Me [only] with their lip service, But they remove their hearts far from Me, And their reverence for Me is a tradition that is learned by rote [without any regard for its meaning],
- American Standard Version - And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh unto me, and with their mouth and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught them;
- King James Version - 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:
- New English Translation - The sovereign master says, “These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.
- World English Bible - The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- 新標點和合本 - 主說：因為這百姓親近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心卻遠離我； 他們敬畏我， 不過是領受人的吩咐。
- 和合本2010（上帝版-繁體） - 主說：「因這百姓以口親近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心卻遠離我； 他們敬畏我， 不過是領受前人的命令。
- 和合本2010（神版-繁體） - 主說：「因這百姓以口親近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心卻遠離我； 他們敬畏我， 不過是領受前人的命令。
- 當代譯本 - 主說：「這些人嘴上親近我， 他們用嘴唇尊崇我，心卻遠離我。 他們敬拜我不過是遵行人定的規條。
- 聖經新譯本 - 主說： “因為這子民只用言語來親近我， 用嘴唇尊崇我， 他們的心卻遠離我。 他們對我的敬畏，只是遵從傳統的吩咐。
- 呂振中譯本 - 主說： 『這人民既只是口頭上親近我， 嘴脣上尊敬我， 心卻遠離着我； 他們之敬畏 我、 不過是死記着人所吩咐的罷了；
- 中文標準譯本 - 主說： 「因為這子民嘴上親近我， 用嘴唇尊重我， 他們的心卻遠離我； 他們敬畏我，不過是遵行人所教導的規條；
- 現代標點和合本 - 主說：「因為這百姓親近我， 用嘴唇尊敬我， 心卻遠離我。 他們敬畏我， 不過是領受人的吩咐。
- 文理和合譯本 - 主曰、斯民以口親我、以脣尊我、而心則遠我、彼之畏我、乃從人所授之命耳、
- 文理委辦譯本 - 主曰、斯民以口舌附我、言則敬我、而心則遠我、其敬畏我者、苟隨流俗而已。
- 施約瑟淺文理新舊約聖經 - 主曰、此民但以口親近我、以唇尊敬我、而心則遠離我、其敬畏我者、不過守習學世人所傳之誡而已、
- Nueva Versión Internacional - El Señor dice: «Este pueblo me alaba con la boca y me honra con los labios, pero su corazón está lejos de mí. Su adoración no es más que un mandato enseñado por hombres.
- 현대인의 성경 - 여호와께서 이렇게 말씀하셨다. “이 백성이 입으로는 나를 가까이하고 입술로는 나를 존경하나 마음은 내게서 멀리 떠나 있다. 그들의 신앙은 사람의 가르침이나 규정에 얽매여 있다.
- Новый Русский Перевод - Владыка говорит: – Этот народ приближается ко Мне устами, чтит Меня губами, но сердца их далеки от Меня, и их поклонение Мне – лишь заученное человеческое предписание.
- Восточный перевод - Владыка говорит: – Этот народ приближается ко Мне на словах, чтит Меня устами, но сердца их далеки от Меня, и их поклонение Мне – лишь заученное человеческое предписание.
- Восточный перевод, версия с «Аллахом» - Владыка говорит: – Этот народ приближается ко Мне на словах, чтит Меня устами, но сердца их далеки от Меня, и их поклонение Мне – лишь заученное человеческое предписание.
- Восточный перевод, версия для Таджикистана - Владыка говорит: – Этот народ приближается ко Мне на словах, чтит Меня устами, но сердца их далеки от Меня, и их поклонение Мне – лишь заученное человеческое предписание.
- La Bible du Semeur 2015 - Le Seigneur dit encore : ╵Ce peuple se tourne vers moi, mais ce n’est qu’en paroles, ╵et il me rend hommage, ╵mais c’est du bout des lèvres : car au fond de son cœur, ╵il est bien loin de moi, et la crainte ╵qu’il a de moi n’est faite que de règles ╵que des hommes lui ont enseignées .
- リビングバイブル - そこで主は語ります。 「この民は、口先ではわたしの民だと言いながら、 実際にはわたしに従っていない。 彼らの礼拝は、機械的に覚えた文句の反復にすぎない。
- Nova Versão Internacional - O Senhor diz: “Esse povo se aproxima de mim com a boca e me honra com os lábios, mas o seu coração está longe de mim. A adoração que me prestam é feita só de regras ensinadas por homens.
- Hoffnung für alle - So spricht der Herr: »Dieses Volk ehrt mich mit den Lippen, aber mit dem Herzen sind sie weit weg von mir. Ihre Frömmigkeit beruht nur auf Vorschriften, die Menschen aufgestellt haben.
- Kinh Thánh Hiện Đại - Vậy, Chúa phán: “Những người này nói họ thuộc về Ta. Chúng tôn kính Ta bằng môi miệng, nhưng lòng chúng cách xa Ta lắm. Việc chúng thờ phượng Ta là vô nghĩa vì chúng làm theo lệ luật loài người dạy cho.
- พระคริสตธรรมคัมภีร์ไทย ฉบับอมตธรรมร่วมสมัย - องค์พระผู้เป็นเจ้าตรัสว่า “ประชากรเหล่านี้เข้ามาใกล้เราแต่ปาก ปากของพวกเขาพูดยกย่องเรา แต่ใจของพวกเขาห่างไกลจากเรา พวกเขานมัสการเรา ตามกฎเกณฑ์ที่มนุษย์สอนกันมาเท่านั้น
- พระคัมภีร์ ฉบับแปลใหม่ - พระผู้เป็นเจ้ากล่าวว่า “เพราะคนเหล่านี้พูดด้วยปากว่า เขาอยู่ใกล้เรา และให้เกียรติเราเพียงแค่ปาก แต่ใจของพวกเขาห่างไกลจากเรา ความเกรงกลัวของพวกเขาที่มีต่อเรา ก็มาจากกฎเกณฑ์ที่มนุษย์สั่งสอน
Cross Reference
- Isaiah 10:6 - I send him against a godless nation, I dispatch him against a people who anger me, to seize loot and snatch plunder, and to trample them down like mud in the streets.
- Psalm 17:1 - Hear me, Lord, my plea is just; listen to my cry. Hear my prayer— it does not rise from deceitful lips.
- 2 Chronicles 29:1 - Hezekiah was twenty-five years old when he became king, and he reigned in Jerusalem twenty-nine years. His mother’s name was Abijah daughter of Zechariah.
- 2 Chronicles 29:2 - He did what was right in the eyes of the Lord, just as his father David had done.
- 2 Chronicles 29:3 - In the first month of the first year of his reign, he opened the doors of the temple of the Lord and repaired them.
- 2 Chronicles 29:4 - He brought in the priests and the Levites, assembled them in the square on the east side
- 2 Chronicles 29:5 - and said: “Listen to me, Levites! Consecrate yourselves now and consecrate the temple of the Lord, the God of your ancestors. Remove all defilement from the sanctuary.
- 2 Chronicles 29:6 - Our parents were unfaithful; they did evil in the eyes of the Lord our God and forsook him. They turned their faces away from the Lord’s dwelling place and turned their backs on him.
- 2 Chronicles 29:7 - They also shut the doors of the portico and put out the lamps. They did not burn incense or present any burnt offerings at the sanctuary to the God of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:8 - Therefore, the anger of the Lord has fallen on Judah and Jerusalem; he has made them an object of dread and horror and scorn, as you can see with your own eyes.
- 2 Chronicles 29:9 - This is why our fathers have fallen by the sword and why our sons and daughters and our wives are in captivity.
- 2 Chronicles 29:10 - Now I intend to make a covenant with the Lord, the God of Israel, so that his fierce anger will turn away from us.
- 2 Chronicles 29:11 - My sons, do not be negligent now, for the Lord has chosen you to stand before him and serve him, to minister before him and to burn incense.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:12 - Then these Levites set to work: from the Kohathites, Mahath son of Amasai and Joel son of Azariah; from the Merarites, Kish son of Abdi and Azariah son of Jehallelel; from the Gershonites, Joah son of Zimmah and Eden son of Joah;
- 2 Chronicles 29:13 - from the descendants of Elizaphan, Shimri and Jeiel; from the descendants of Asaph, Zechariah and Mattaniah;
- 2 Chronicles 29:14 - from the descendants of Heman, Jehiel and Shimei; from the descendants of Jeduthun, Shemaiah and Uzziel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:15 - When they had assembled their fellow Levites and consecrated themselves, they went in to purify the temple of the Lord, as the king had ordered, following the word of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 29:16 - The priests went into the sanctuary of the Lord to purify it. They brought out to the courtyard of the Lord’s temple everything unclean that they found in the temple of the Lord. The Levites took it and carried it out to the Kidron Valley.
- 2 Chronicles 29:17 - They began the consecration on the first day of the first month, and by the eighth day of the month they reached the portico of the Lord. For eight more days they consecrated the temple of the Lord itself, finishing on the sixteenth day of the first month.
- 2 Chronicles 29:18 - Then they went in to King Hezekiah and reported: “We have purified the entire temple of the Lord, the altar of burnt offering with all its utensils, and the table for setting out the consecrated bread, with all its articles.
- 2 Chronicles 29:19 - We have prepared and consecrated all the articles that King Ahaz removed in his unfaithfulness while he was king. They are now in front of the Lord’s altar.”
- 2 Chronicles 29:20 - Early the next morning King Hezekiah gathered the city officials together and went up to the temple of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 29:21 - They brought seven bulls, seven rams, seven male lambs and seven male goats as a sin offering for the kingdom, for the sanctuary and for Judah. The king commanded the priests, the descendants of Aaron, to offer these on the altar of the Lord.
- 2 Chronicles 29:22 - So they slaughtered the bulls, and the priests took the blood and splashed it against the altar; next they slaughtered the rams and splashed their blood against the altar; then they slaughtered the lambs and splashed their blood against the altar.
- 2 Chronicles 29:23 - The goats for the sin offering were brought before the king and the assembly, and they laid their hands on them.
- 2 Chronicles 29:24 - The priests then slaughtered the goats and presented their blood on the altar for a sin offering to atone for all Israel, because the king had ordered the burnt offering and the sin offering for all Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:25 - He stationed the Levites in the temple of the Lord with cymbals, harps and lyres in the way prescribed by David and Gad the king’s seer and Nathan the prophet; this was commanded by the Lord through his prophets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:26 - So the Levites stood ready with David’s instruments, and the priests with their trumpets.
- 2 Chronicles 29:27 - Hezekiah gave the order to sacrifice the burnt offering on the altar. As the offering began, singing to the Lord began also, accompanied by trumpets and the instruments of David king of Israel.
- 2 Chronicles 29:28 - The whole assembly bowed in worship, while the musicians played and the trumpets sounded. All this continued until the sacrifice of the burnt offering was completed.
- 2 Chronicles 29:29 - When the offerings were finished, the king and everyone present with him knelt down and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:30 - King Hezekiah and his officials ordered the Levites to praise the Lord with the words of David and of Asaph the seer. So they sang praises with gladness and bowed down and worshiped.
- 2 Chronicles 29:31 - Then Hezekiah said, “You have now dedicated yourselves to the Lord. Come and bring sacrifices and thank offerings to the temple of the Lord.” So the assembly brought sacrifices and thank offerings, and all whose hearts were willing brought burnt offerings.
- Jeremiah 5:2 - Although they say, ‘As surely as the Lord lives,’ still they are swearing falsely.”
- Jeremiah 42:2 - Jeremiah the prophet and said to him, “Please hear our petition and pray to the Lord your God for this entire remnant. For as you now see, though we were once many, now only a few are left.
- Jeremiah 42:3 - Pray that the Lord your God will tell us where we should go and what we should do.”
- Jeremiah 42:4 - “I have heard you,” replied Jeremiah the prophet. “I will certainly pray to the Lord your God as you have requested; I will tell you everything the Lord says and will keep nothing back from you.”
- Isaiah 48:1 - “Listen to this, you descendants of Jacob, you who are called by the name of Israel and come from the line of Judah, you who take oaths in the name of the Lord and invoke the God of Israel— but not in truth or righteousness—
- Isaiah 48:2 - you who call yourselves citizens of the holy city and claim to rely on the God of Israel— the Lord Almighty is his name:
- Jeremiah 42:20 - that you made a fatal mistake when you sent me to the Lord your God and said, ‘Pray to the Lord our God for us; tell us everything he says and we will do it.’
- Colossians 2:22 - These rules, which have to do with things that are all destined to perish with use, are based on merely human commands and teachings.
- Matthew 15:2 - “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
- Matthew 15:3 - Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
- Matthew 15:4 - For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
- Matthew 15:5 - But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’
- Matthew 15:6 - they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
- Matthew 15:7 - You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
- Matthew 15:8 - “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
- Matthew 15:9 - They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’ ”
- Proverbs 30:6 - Do not add to his words, or he will rebuke you and prove you a liar.
- Isaiah 58:2 - For day after day they seek me out; they seem eager to know my ways, as if they were a nation that does what is right and has not forsaken the commands of its God. They ask me for just decisions and seem eager for God to come near them.
- Isaiah 58:3 - ‘Why have we fasted,’ they say, ‘and you have not seen it? Why have we humbled ourselves, and you have not noticed?’ “Yet on the day of your fasting, you do as you please and exploit all your workers.
- Jeremiah 3:10 - In spite of all this, her unfaithful sister Judah did not return to me with all her heart, but only in pretense,” declares the Lord.
- Ezekiel 33:31 - My people come to you, as they usually do, and sit before you to hear your words, but they do not put them into practice. Their mouths speak of love, but their hearts are greedy for unjust gain.
- Ezekiel 33:32 - Indeed, to them you are nothing more than one who sings love songs with a beautiful voice and plays an instrument well, for they hear your words but do not put them into practice.
- Ezekiel 33:33 - “When all this comes true—and it surely will—then they will know that a prophet has been among them.”
- Jeremiah 12:2 - You have planted them, and they have taken root; they grow and bear fruit. You are always on their lips but far from their hearts.
- Mark 7:2 - and saw some of his disciples eating food with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
- Mark 7:3 - (The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.
- Mark 7:4 - When they come from the marketplace they do not eat unless they wash. And they observe many other traditions, such as the washing of cups, pitchers and kettles. )
- Mark 7:5 - So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”
- Mark 7:6 - He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
- Mark 7:7 - They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
- Mark 7:8 - You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
- Mark 7:9 - And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
- Mark 7:10 - For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
- Mark 7:11 - But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
- Mark 7:12 - then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
- Mark 7:13 - Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”