Mark 7:5–15

^5dThen 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?”

⁶He answered and said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you ^ehypocrites, as it is written:

^f‘This people honors Me with their lips,

But their heart is far from Me.

⁷And in vain they worship Me,

Teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

⁸For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men—⁴the washing of pitchers and cups, and many other such things you do.”

⁹He said to them, “All too well ^gyou ⁵reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. ¹⁰For Moses said, ^h‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ⁱ‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ ¹¹But you say, ‘If a man says to his father or mother, ^j“Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban”—’ (that is, a gift to God), ¹²then you no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother, ¹³making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

^14kWhen He had called all the multitude to Himself, He said to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and ^lunderstand: ¹⁵There 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 ^mdefile a man.