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And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to 1the tradition of 2the elders, 3but eat with 4defiled hands?"
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And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you 5hypocrites, as it is written,6"'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;
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in vain do they worship me, teaching as 7doctrines the commandments of men.'
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You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."
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And he said to them, "You have a fine way of 8rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!
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For Moses said, 9'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 10'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'
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But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban"' (that is, given to God)[a]--
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then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,
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thus 11making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do."
What Defiles a Person
14 And he called the people to him again and said to them, 12"Hear me, all of you, and understand:
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13There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him."[b]