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Matthew 15:8-9
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Matthew 15:8-9
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“ ‘These people honor me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me.
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They worship me in vain;
their teachings are merely human rules.’
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Matthew 15:8-9 In-Context
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they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
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You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
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“ ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
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They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’”
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Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.
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What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
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Colossians 2:20-22
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Isaiah 29:13
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Malachi 2:2
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Isaiah 29:13
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