New English Translation

Mark 7:5-11 New English Translation (NET)

5. The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him, “Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

6. He said to them, “Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips,but their heart is far from me.

7. They worship me in vain,teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

8. Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

9. He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’

11. But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’ (that is, a gift for God),