need not honor his father,’[a] and you make void the word of God for the sake of your tradition. Hypocrites! Isaiah correctly prophesied about you saying,

‘This people honors me with their[b] lips,
    but their heart is far, far away from me,

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:6 Most later manuscripts add “or his mother”
  2. Matthew 15:8 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun