Mark 7:6-15

English Standard Version

⁶ And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you ^(A)hypocrites, as it is written,

⁸ You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”

⁹ And he said to them, “You have a fine way of ^(D)rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! ¹⁰ For Moses said, ^(E)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ^(F)‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ ¹¹ But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God)^[a]— ¹² then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, ¹³ thus ^(G)making void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.”

What Defiles a Person

¹⁴ And he called the people to him again and said to them, ^(H)“Hear me, all of you, and understand: ^15 (I)There is nothing outside a person that by going into him can defile him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.”^[b]