Mark 7:8-13

GOD’S WORD Translation

⁸ “You abandon the commandments of God to follow human traditions.” ⁹ He added, “You have no trouble rejecting the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions! ¹⁰ For example, Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Whoever curses father or mother must be put to death.’ ¹¹ But you say, ‘If a person tells his father or mother that whatever he might have used to help them is corban (that is, an offering to God), ¹² he no longer has to do anything for his father or mother.’ ¹³ Because of your traditions you have destroyed the authority of God’s word. And you do many other things like that.”