Matthew 15:5-14

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

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

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

10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.

11 What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”

12 Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”

13 He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.

14 Leave them; they are blind guides.^[b] If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”

Cross References

• 1. Colossians 2:20-22
• 2. Isaiah 29:13; Malachi 2:2
• 3. S Acts 10:14,15
• 4. ver 18
• 5. Isaiah 60:21; Isaiah 61:3; John 15:2
• 6. Matthew 23:16,24; Romans 2:19
• 7. Luke 6:39

Footnotes

• [a] Isaiah 29:13
• [b] Some manuscripts "blind guides of the blind"