Mark 7:5–15

⁵Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread ^bwith unwashen hands? ⁶He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, ^eThis people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. ⁷Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. ⁸For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as ^fthe washing of pots and cups: ^gand many other such like things ye do. ⁹And he said unto them, Full well ye ^||hreject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. ¹⁰For Moses said, ^hhHonour thy father and thy mother; and, ⁱWhoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death: ¹¹But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is ⁱⁱCorban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. ¹²And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; ¹³Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: ^gand many such like things do ye.

¹⁴And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand: ¹⁵There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.