Mark 7:9-15

⁹And Jesus kept talking to them, he said, “You mob are tricky in the way you turn your back on God’s law and follow your own rules.

¹⁰You see, God told Moses to tell people to look after their old people. Moses wrote this law, ‘You have to respect your father and mother.’ And it says, ‘If anyone rubbishes their father or mother, you have to kill that person.’

¹¹But you mob reckon that a man can tell his father or mother, ‘I want to help you old people, but sorry, I promised to give that thing to God, so I can’t give you that thing that you need.’

¹²You mob reckon that if he says that to his father and mother, he doesn’t have to help them and he can keep that thing for himself.

¹³In that way you take God’s word away from people so that they will just follow the rules that you made up. You do all sorts of things like that all the time.”

¹⁴Then Jesus called out to all the people to come and listen to him. He said, “Listen to me, everyone, and try to understand what I’m saying.

¹⁵Don’t worry about what goes into your mouth but worry about what comes out of it. If God hears bad things come out of your mouth he will say that you are no good inside.”