Mark 7:5-8

5 So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

6 He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written: “ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

7 They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’^[a]

8 You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”

Cross References

• 1. S ver 3; Galatians 1:14; Colossians 2:8
• 2. Isaiah 29:13
• 3. S ver 3

Footnotes

• [a] Isaiah 29:13