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Matthew 15:2-6
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"Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat."
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He answered them, "And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?
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For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.'
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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.'
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So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.
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Revised Standard Version of the Bible, copyright 1952 [2nd edition, 1971] by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. Used by permission. All rights reserved.