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Matthew 15:3-5
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
Matthew 15:3-5
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition
3 He answered them, “And why do you transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him surely die.’ 5 But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God,[a] he need not honor his father.’[b]
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- Matthew 15:5 Or an offering
- 15.5 By dedicating his property to God, i.e., to the temple, a man could avoid having to help his parents, without actually giving up what he had. The scribes held such a vow to be valid without necessarily approving it.
Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition (RSVCE)
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