Matthew 15:3-9 ▼

3 And he answered them, |Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

4 For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, |Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,|

6 he is not to honor his father or his mother.' You have made the word of God void because of your tradition.

7 You hypocrites. Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

8 'These people honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching instructions that are the commandments of humans.'|