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Matthew 15: 1-20
\n1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, 2 \u201cWhy do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat.\u201d 3 He answered them, \u201cAnd why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God said, \u2018Honor your father and your mother,\u2019 and, \u2018Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.\u2019 5 But you say that whoever tells father or mother, \u2018Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,\u2019 then that person need not honor the father. 6 So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:
\n8\t\u2018This people honors me with their lips,
\nbut their hearts are far from me;
\n9\tin vain do they worship me,
\nteaching human precepts as doctrines.\u2019 \u201d
\n10 Then he called the crowd to him and said to them, \u201cListen and understand: 11 it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.\u201d 12 Then the disciples approached and said to him, \u201cDo you know that the Pharisees took offense when they heard what you said?\u201d 13 He answered, \u201cEvery plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be uprooted. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if one blind person guides another, both will fall into a pit.\u201d 15 But Peter said to him, \u201cExplain this parable to us.\u201d 16 Then he said, \u201cAre you also still without understanding? 17 Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach, and goes out into the sewer? 18 But what comes out of the mouth proceeds from the heart, and this is what defiles. 19 For out of the heart come evil intentions, murder, adultery, fornication, theft, false witness, slander. 20 These are what defile a person, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile.\u201d
\nFrom the New Revised Standard Version<\/a>. Reprinted with permission from HarperBibles.<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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