Mark 7:5-7

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

⁵So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why do your disciples not live^[a] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with defiled hands?’ ⁶He said to them, ‘Isaiah prophesied rightly about you hypocrites, as it is written,

“This people honours me with their lips,
but their hearts are far from me;
⁷in vain do they worship me,
teaching human precepts as doctrines.”

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Mark 7:5 Gk walk

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