Mark 7:5-7

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⁵And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not live^[a] according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with hands defiled?” ⁶And he said to them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
⁷in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

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Mark 7:5 Greek walk

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