Mark 7:8-18 (New International Version)
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You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to the traditions of men."1
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And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observea your own traditions!2
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For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,'b3 and, 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'c4
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But you say5 that if a man says to his father or mother: 'Whatever help you might otherwise have received from me is Corban' (that is, a gift devoted to God),
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then you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.
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Thus you nullify the word of God6 by your tradition7 that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
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Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
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Nothing outside a man can make him 'unclean' by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a man that makes him 'unclean.'d "
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After he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him8 about this parable.
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"Are you so dull?" he asked. "Don't you see that nothing that enters a man from the outside can make him 'unclean'?
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