Matthew 15:4-9

4God's Law says: “You must love your father and mother and obey them.” God also said, “A person should die if he says bad things against his father or against his mother.”

5But 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.”

6Then, you let that person give nothing to his parents. He does not have to help them. This shows that you have not obeyed what God says is right. Instead, you have obeyed your own ideas.

7You are hypocrites! What God's prophet Isaiah wrote about you long ago is true:

8God says, “These people say good things about me, but they do not really want to obey me.

9They say that I am great. But what they say has no purpose. They teach their own rules, which I did not give to them.” ’