Mark 7:9-13

Living Bible

⁹ You are simply rejecting God’s laws and trampling them under your feet for the sake of tradition.

¹⁰ “For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother.’ And he said that anyone who speaks against his father or mother must die. ¹¹ But you say it is perfectly all right for a man to disregard his needy parents, telling them, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you! For I have given to God what I could have given to you.’ ^12-13 And so you break the law of God in order to protect your man-made tradition. And this is only one example. There are many, many others.”