7. You hypocrites, rightly did Isaiah prophesy of you:
8. 'This people honors Me with their lips, But their heart is far away from Me.
9. 'But in vain do they worship Me, Teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.'"
10. After Jesus called the crowd to Him, He said to them, "Hear and understand.
11. It is not what enters into the mouth that defiles the man, but what proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."
12. Then the disciples came and said to Him, "Do You know that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this statement?"
13. But He answered and said, "Every plant which My heavenly Father did not plant shall be uprooted.
14. Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind. And if a blind man guides a blind man, both will fall into a pit."