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Matthew 15:8-13 Good News Bible Anglicised (GNBDC)

8. ‘These people, says God, honour me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.

9. It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!’ ”

10. Then Jesus called the crowd to him and said to them, “Listen and understand!

11. It is not what goes into a person's mouth that makes him ritually unclean; rather, what comes out of it makes him unclean.”

12. Then the disciples came to him and said, “Do you know that the Pharisees had their feelings hurt by what you said?”

13. “Every plant which my Father in heaven did not plant will be pulled up,” answered Jesus.

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