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But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
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Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
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And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
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For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
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but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
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ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
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making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
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And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:
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there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.