Mark 7:6-8

EasyEnglish Bible

⁶Jesus said to them, ‘You are hypocrites! What God's prophet Isaiah wrote about you long ago is true:

    God says, “These people say good things about me,
    but they do not really want to obey me.
⁷They say that I am great.
    But what they say has no purpose.
    They teach their own rules, which I did not give to them.” ’^[a]

⁸Jesus then said, ‘You have stopped obeying God. Instead you obey the ideas that men teach.’