Matthew 15:6

6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.

Matthew 15:6 Meaning and Commentary

Matthew 15:6

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Matthew 15:6 In-Context

4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'

5 But you say, 'If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.'

6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.

7 You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

8 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me;