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He answered and said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.
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And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.'
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"Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men."
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He said to them, "You well neglect the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition.
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"For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother'; and, 'He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.'
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"But you say, 'If a man says to his father or mother, "Anything of mine you might have been helped by is Corban..."'" (that is to say, offered to God),
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"then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or his mother,
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"making the words of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."
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