Matthew 15:1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20
Matthew 15:2 NIV
“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”
Matthew 15:3 NIV
Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
Matthew 15:4 NIV
For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’
Matthew 15:5 NIV
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 NIV
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 15:11 NIV
What goes into someone’s mouth does not defile them, but what comes out of their mouth, that is what defiles them.”
Matthew 15:12 NIV
Then the disciples came to him and asked, “Do you know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this?”
Matthew 15:13 NIV
He replied, “Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be pulled up by the roots.
Matthew 15:14 NIV
Leave them; they are blind guides. If the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit.”
Matthew 15:17 NIV
“Don’t you see that whatever enters the mouth goes into the stomach and then out of the body?
Matthew 15:18 NIV
But the things that come out of a person’s mouth come from the heart, and these defile them.
Matthew 15:19 NIV
For out of the heart come evil thoughts—murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.
Matthew 15:20 NIV
These are what defile a person; but eating with unwashed hands does not defile them.”