He answered and said to them, “Why do you also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? For God commanded, saying, (A)‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, (B)‘He who curses father or mother, let him be put to death.’ But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, (C)“Whatever profit you might have received from me is a gift to God”— then he need not honor his father [a]or mother.’ Thus you have made the [b]commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

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Footnotes

  1. Matthew 15:6 NU omits or mother
  2. Matthew 15:6 NU word

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