²² (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

¹³ And the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw nigh `unto me', and with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which hath been taught `them';

¹⁴ not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

¹³ Meats for the belly, and the belly for meats: but God shall bring to nought both it and them. But the body is not for fornication, but for the Lord; and the Lord for the body:

⁷ But in vain do they worship me, Teaching `as their' doctrines the precepts of men.

⁸ Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

¹⁰ For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

¹¹ but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given `to God';

¹² ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

¹³ making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

³ And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

⁴ For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

⁵ But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given `to God';

⁶ he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

⁷ Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

⁸ This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

⁹ But in vain do they worship me, Teaching `as their' doctrines the precepts of men.

²⁷ Work not for the food which perisheth, but for the food which abideth unto eternal life, which the Son of man shall give unto you: for him the Father, even God, hath sealed.

¹⁸ And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, `it' cannot defile him;

¹⁹ because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? `This he said', making all meats clean.

³⁷ Neither shall he regard the gods of his fathers, nor the desire of women, nor regard any god; for he shall magnify himself above all.

¹⁸ And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

¹⁸ And the woman whom thou sawest is the great city, which reigneth over the kings of the earth.