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Matthew, Chapter 15, verses 1-20

¹ Then some Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, ² “Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.” ³ And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? ⁴ For God said, ‘HONOR YOUR FATHER AND MOTHER,’ and, ‘HE WHO SPEAKS EVIL OF FATHER OR MOTHER IS TO^a Lit die the deathBE PUT TO DEATH.’ ⁵ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been^b Lit a gift*; i.e. an offeringgiven to God,” ⁶ he is not to honor his father or his mother^c I.e. by supporting them with it.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you: ⁸ ‘THIS PEOPLE HONORS ME WITH THEIR LIPS, BUT THEIR HEART IS FAR AWAY FROM ME. ⁹ ‘BUT IN VAIN DO THEY WORSHIP ME, TEACHING AS DOCTRINES THE PRECEPTS OF MEN.’”	1 Mat 15:1-20 Mar 3:22 Mar 7:1 Joh 1:19 Act 25:7 2 Luk 11:38 4 Exo 20:12 Deu 5:16 Exo 21:17 Lev 20:9 8 Isa 29:13 9 Col 2:22
¹⁰ After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand. ¹¹ It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”	11 Mat 15:18 Act 10:14 Act 10:15 Ti1 4:3
¹² Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were^d Lit caused to stumbleoffended when they heard this statement?” ¹³ But He answered and said, “Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides^e Later mss add of the blindof the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”	13 Isa 60:21 Isa 61:3 Joh 15:2 Co1 3:9 14 Mat 23:16 Mat 23:24 Luk 6:39
¹⁵ Peter^f Lit answered and saidsaid to Him, “Explain the parable to us.” ¹⁶ ^g Lit and HeJesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also? ¹⁷ Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is^h Lit thrown out into the latrineeliminated? ¹⁸ But the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries,ⁱ I.e. sexual immoralityfornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. ²⁰ These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”	15 Mat 13:36 18 Mat 12:34 Mar 7:20 19 Gal 5:19


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