25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and the platter, but within they are full of robbery and licentiousness.
Matthew 23:25 Cross References - Noyes
Matthew 15:19-20
Mark 7:4-13
4 and on coming from the marketplace, unless they bathe, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the dipping of cups, and pitchers, and brazen vessels;)
5 then the Pharisees and scribes ask him, Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with defiled hands?
6 And he said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, "This people honoreth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men."
8 Laying aside, the commandment of God, ye hold fast the tradition of men.
9 And he said to them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition!
10 For Moses said, "Honor thy father and thy mother;" and, "He that curseth father or mother, let him surely die."
11 But ye say, If a man say to his father or mother, Whatever thou mightst receive in aid from me is Corban, that is, a gift to God, [he is not bound by the command. Thus]
12 ye suffer him no longer to do anything for his father or his mother;
13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have handed down; and many such things ye do.