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Passage Lookup: Matthew 15:1-20
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Matthew 15:1
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That Which Defiles(a)
Then some Pharisees and teachers of the law came to Jesus from Jerusalem and asked,Footnotes:
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Matthew 15:2
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"Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands before they eat!"(b)
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Matthew 15:3
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Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
Matthew 15:4
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For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother'[a](c) and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.'[b](d)
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Matthew 15:5
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But you say that if anyone declares that what might have been used to help their father or mother is ‘devoted to God,'
Matthew 15:6
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they are not to ‘honor their father or mother' with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Matthew 15:7
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You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you:
Matthew 15:8
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"‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.
Matthew 15:9
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They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.(e)'[c](f)"
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Matthew 15:10
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Jesus called the crowd to him and said, "Listen and understand.
Matthew 15:11
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What goes into someone's mouth does not defile them,(g) but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them."(h)
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Matthew 15:12
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Then the disciples came to him and asked, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?"
Matthew 15:13
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He replied, "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted(i) will be pulled up by the roots.
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Matthew 15:14
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Leave them; they are blind guides.[d](j) If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."(k)
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Matthew 15:15
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Peter said, "Explain the parable to us."(l)
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Matthew 15:16
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"Are you still so dull?"(m) Jesus asked them.
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Matthew 15:17
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"Don't you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
Matthew 15:18
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But the things that come out of a person's mouth come from the heart,(n) and these defile them.
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Matthew 15:19
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For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.(o)
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Matthew 15:20
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These are what defile a person;(p) but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them."
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