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For God said, "Honor your father and your mother,' and, "Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.'
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But you say that whoever tells father or mother, "Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,' then that person need not honor the father.
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So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.
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You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
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"This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me;
Footnotes 1
[a].
Other ancient authorities read [law]+!; others, [commandment]
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