Parallel Bible results for "Matthew 15:1-9"

Matthew 15:1-9

1 Then Pharisees and scribes came from Jerusalem to Jesus and asked,

1 Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,

2 "Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat!"

2 “Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

3 He answered them, "And why do you break God's commandment because of your tradition?

3 Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

4 For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, The one who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.

4 For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’

5 But you say, 'Whoever tells his father or mother, "Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift [committed to the temple]"-

5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’

6 he does not have to honor his father.' In this way, you have revoked God's word because of your tradition.

6 they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:

7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:

8 These people honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

8 “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

9 They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commands of men. "

9 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”