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He answered them, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites. As it is written:

These people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
They worship me in vain, teaching human rules as if they
    were doctrines.[a]

“You abandon God’s commandment but hold to human tradition like the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”[b]

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  1. Mark 7:7 Isaiah 29:13
  2. Mark 7:8 A few witnesses to the text omit the last part of verse 8 (like the washing. . .).

He replied, “Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you hypocrites; as it is written:

“‘These people honor me with their lips,
    but their hearts are far from me.
They worship me in vain;
    their teachings are merely human rules.’[a](A)

You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”(B)

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  1. Mark 7:7 Isaiah 29:13