Matthew 15:3-13

3 He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

4 For God commanded, ¹'Honor your father and your mother,' and, ²'Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.'

5 But you say, 'If anyone tells his father or his mother, "What you would have gained from me is given to God,"^[a]

6 he need not honor his father.' So for the sake of your tradition you have ³made void the word^[b] of God.

7 ⁴You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

8 ⁵"'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;

9 in vain do they worship me, teaching as ⁶doctrines the commandments of men.'"

What Defiles a Person

10 And he called the people to him and said to them, ⁷"Hear and understand:

11 ⁸it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but what comes out of the mouth; this defiles a person."

12 Then the disciples came and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were ⁹offended when they heard this saying?"

13 He answered, ¹⁰"Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted ¹¹will be rooted up.