Mark 7:5–15

⁵So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”^{* 6}He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me;^*

⁷in vain do they worship me,

teaching human precepts as doctrines.’

⁸“You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”^*

⁹Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!^{* 10}For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’^{* 11}But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God^z),^{* 12}then you no longer permit doing anything for a father or mother, ¹³thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

¹⁴Then he called the crowd again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand: ¹⁵there is nothing outside a person that by going in can defile, but the things that come out are what defile.”^a