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Mark 7:11-15 Good News Bible (GNB)

11. But you teach that if a person has something he could use to help his father or mother, but says, ‘This is Corban’ (which means, it belongs to God),

12. he is excused from helping his father or mother.

13. In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”

14. Then Jesus called the crowd to him once more and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

15. There is nothing that goes into a person from the outside which can make him ritually unclean. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that makes him unclean.”