Tree Of Life Version

Mark 7:6-20 Tree Of Life Version (TLV)

6. And He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written, ‘This people honors Me with their lips but their heart is far from Me.

7. And in vain they worship Me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8. Having left behind the commandment of God, you hold on to the tradition of men.”

9. He was also telling them, “You set aside the commands of God, in order that you may validate your own tradition.

10. For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’

11. But you say if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever you might have gained from me is korban (that is, an offering to God),’

12. then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother,

13. making void the word of God with your tradition that you’ve handed down. And you do many such things.”

14. Then Yeshua called the crowd again and began saying to them, “Hear Me, everyone, and understand.

15. There is nothing outside the man that can make him unholy by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.”

16. [footnote: Some mss. Add: If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.]

17. When He had left the crowd and entered the house, His disciples questioned Him about the parable.

18. And He said to them, “Are you then also lacking understanding? Don’t you grasp that whatever goes into the man cannot make him unholy?

19. For it does not enter into the heart but into the stomach, and then goes out into the sewer, cleansing all foods.”

20. And He continued, “It is what comes out of the man that makes the man unholy.