So he said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their[a] lips,
    but their heart is far, far away from me.
And they worship me in vain,
    teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’[b]

Abandoning the commandment of God, you hold fast to the tradition of men.”

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Footnotes

  1. Mark 7:6 Literally “the”; the Greek article is used here as a possessive pronoun
  2. Mark 7:7 A quotation from Isa 29:13