Matthew 15:3-20

3And He answered and said to them, “Why do you yourselves transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4For God said, ‘1Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘2He who speaks evil of father or mother is to 3be put to death.’ 5But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, “Whatever I have that would help you has been 4given to God,” 6he is not to honor his father or his mother5.’ And by this you invalidated the word of God for the sake of your tradition. 7You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:8‘6This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.9But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as 7doctrines the precepts of men.’”

10After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, “Hear and understand. 118It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man.”

12Then the disciples came and said to Him, “Do You know that the Pharisees were 9offended when they heard this statement?” 13But He answered and said, “10Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted. 14Let them alone; 11they are blind guides 12of the blind. And 13if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit.”

15Peter 14said to Him, “15Explain the parable to us.” 1616Jesus said, “Are you still lacking in understanding also? 17Do you not understand that everything that goes into the mouth passes into the stomach, and is 17eliminated? 18But 18the things that proceed out of the mouth come from the heart, and those defile the man. 1919For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, 20fornications, thefts, false witness, slanders. 20These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.”