Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: 'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
(Mar 7:6 GNB)
It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
(Mar 7:7 GNB)
The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.
(Isa 29:13 GNB)
So I will startle them with one unexpected blow after another. Those who are wise will turn out to be fools, and all their cleverness will be useless."
(Isa 29:14 GNB)
"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
(Mar 7:8 GNB)
And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
(Mar 7:9 GNB)
For Moses commanded, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and, 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
(Mar 7:10 GNB)
But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),
(Mar 7:11 GNB)
they are excused from helping their father or mother.
(Mar 7:12 GNB)
In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."
(Mar 7:13 GNB)
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