² “Honor your father and mother”—which is the first commandment with a promise—

⁷ Give to everyone what you owe them: If you owe taxes, pay taxes;^(A) if revenue, then revenue; if respect, then respect; if honor, then honor.

⁹ And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe^[a] your own traditions!^{(A) 10} For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and mother,’^[b](B) and, ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’^{[c](C) 11} But you say^(D) that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is Corban (that is, devoted to God)— ¹² then you no longer let them do anything for their father or mother. ¹³ Thus you nullify the word of God^(E) by your tradition^(F) that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

⁴ For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’^[a](A) and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’^{[b](B) 5} But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,’ ⁶ they are not to ‘honor their father or mother’ with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

Breaking Covenant Through Blemished Sacrifices

⁶ “A son honors his father,^(A) and a slave his master.^(B) If I am a father, where is the honor due me? If I am a master, where is the respect^(C) due me?” says the Lord Almighty.^(D)

“It is you priests who show contempt for my name.

“But you ask,^(E) ‘How have we shown contempt for your name?’

⁷ In you they have treated father and mother with contempt;^(A) in you they have oppressed the foreigner^(B) and mistreated the fatherless and the widow.^(C)