Mark 7:7-13

7They say that I am great. But what they say has no purpose. They teach their own rules, which I did not give to them.” ’

8Jesus then said, ‘You have stopped obeying God. Instead you obey the ideas that men teach.’

9He said to them, ‘You refuse to obey God's rules, because then you can keep your own ideas!

10For example, Moses wrote, “You must love your father and your mother. You must obey them.” He also said, “You must kill anyone who curses his father or his mother.”

11But you teach that a person may say to his father or to his mother, “I would have given gifts to help you. But I cannot do that, because I have given them to God instead.”

12If he says that, you let him do nothing to help his father or his mother.

13This shows that you have not obeyed what God says is right. Instead, you have obeyed the ideas that you received from your leaders many years ago. And you do many other things like that.’