You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
Parallel translations
- KJV Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,
- BSB You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:
- NKJV Hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy about you, saying:
- NASB You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you, by saying:
- NLT You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, for he wrote,
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- Mark 7:6He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- Matt 23:23–29“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.
- Acts 28:25–27When they didn’t agree among themselves, they departed after Paul had spoken one word, “The Holy Spirit spoke rightly through Isaiah, the prophet, to our fathers,
- Matt 7:5You hypocrite! First remove the beam out of your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck out of your brother’s eye.
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