Good News Translation w/ Apocrypha GNTA
New International Version NIV
6 Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: "These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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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 It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
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They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’
8 "You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
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You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”
9 And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
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And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observeyour own traditions!
10 For Moses commanded, "Respect your father and your mother,' and, "If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
11 But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, "This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),
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But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)—
12 they are excused from helping their father or mother.
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then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother.
13 In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."
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Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”
14 Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.
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Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
15 There is nothing that goes into you from the outside which can make you ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of you that makes you unclean."
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Nothing outside a person can defile them by going into them. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles them.”
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.
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