Matthew 15:5-14

Moffatt(i) 5 But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' 6 need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition. 7 You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, 8 This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: 9 vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts." 10 Then he called the crowd and said to them, "Listen, understand this: 11 it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth." 12 Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?" 13 He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit."