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Matthew - ch 15 v 1 - 20
- Then there came to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,
- Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.
- And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?
- For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.
- But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;
- There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.
- You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,
- These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
- But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.
- And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:
- Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.
- Then the disciples came and said to him, Did you see that the Pharisees were troubled when these words came to their ears?
- But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.
- Let them be: they are blind guides. And if a blind man is guiding a blind man, the two will go falling into a hole together.
- Then Peter said to him, Make the story clear to us.
- And he said, Are you, like them, still without wisdom?
- Do you not see that whatever goes into the mouth goes on into the stomach, and is sent out as waste?
- But the things which come out of the mouth come from the heart; and they make a man unclean.
- For out of the heart come evil thoughts, the taking of life, broken faith between the married, unclean desires of the flesh, taking of property, false witness, bitter words:
- These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.
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