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3 "Why do you, too," He retorted, "transgress God's commands for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, 'Honour thy father and thy mother'; and 'Let him who reviles father or mother be certainly put to death'; 5 but you--this is what you say: 'If a man says to his father or mother, That is consecrated, whatever it is, which otherwise you should have received from me-- 6 he shall be absolved from honouring his father'; and so you have abrogated God's Word for the sake of your tradition. Matthew 15:3-6, Weymouth New Testament. Public domain.
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