Mark 7:5-16 (Gospel)
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- Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?”
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- He answered and said to 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.
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- And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’
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- For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men – the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”
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- He said to them, “All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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- For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’
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- But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”’ – (that is, a gift to God),
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- then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother,
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- making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
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- When He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand:
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- There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.
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- If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”