Mark 7:10–18

¹⁰For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’↗

¹¹But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban,”’” that is to say, given to God,↗

¹²“then you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,↗

¹³making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”↗

¹⁴He called all the multitude to himself and said to them,“Hear me, all of you, and understand.↗

¹⁵There is nothing from outside of the man that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.↗

¹⁶If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”↗

¹⁷When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.↗

¹⁸He said to them,“Are you also without understanding? Don’t you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can’t defile him,↗