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Matthew 15:5

Modern English Version

But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, “What you would have profited from me is a gift to God,”

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It is a snare for a man to devote rashly a thing as holy, and after making vows to reconsider his consecration.

For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and mother,’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

will be free from honoring his father or his mother.’ So you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

But Peter and John answered them, “Whether it is right in the sight of God to listen to you more than to God, you judge.

Peter and the other apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than men.