Matthew 15:7-9 You hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,… You would all judge it to be an affront to the majesty of God if a man should send his clothes stuffed with straw, or a puppet dressed up instead of himself, into the assemblies of God's people, and think that this would do instead of his personal presence. Yet our clothes stuffed with straw would be less offensive to God than our bodies without our souls. The absence of the spirit is the absence of the more noble part. (T. Manton.) Parallel Verses KJV: Ye hypocrites, well did Esaias prophesy of you, saying,WEB: You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, |