Matthew 15:3–13

³He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴For God said,^x ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.’^{* 5}But you say that whoever tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,’^y then that person need not honor the father.^{z* 6}So, for the sake of your tradition, you nullify the word^a of God. ⁷You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:

⁸‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their hearts are far from me;^*

⁹in vain do they worship me,

teaching human precepts as doctrines.’ ”^*

Things That Defile

¹⁰Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, “Listen and understand: ¹¹it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”^{* 12}Then the disciples approached and said to him, “Do you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?” ¹³He answered, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted.^*