4 For God said, “Honour your father and mother” and “Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.”
5 But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is “devoted to God,”
6 they are not to “honour their father or mother” with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
7 You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
8 ‘ “These people honour me with their lips,but their hearts are far from me.
9 They worship me in vain;their teachings are merely human rules.”’
10 Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen and understand.