10 For instance, Moses gave you this law from God: ‘Honor your father and mother,’[a] and ‘Anyone who speaks disrespectfully of father or mother must be put to death.’[b] 11 But you say it is all right for people to say to their parents, ‘Sorry, I can’t help you. For I have vowed to give to God what I would have given to you.’[c] 12 In this way, you let them disregard their needy parents.

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Footnotes

  1. 7:10a Exod 20:12; Deut 5:16.
  2. 7:10b Exod 21:17 (Greek version); Lev 20:9 (Greek version).
  3. 7:11 Greek ‘What I would have given to you is Corban’ (that is, a gift).

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