will be free from honoring his father or his mother.’ So you have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
It is time for You, O Lord, to act, for they have broken Your law.
My zeal has consumed me, because my enemies have forgotten Your words.
How do you say, “We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us”? But behold, the lying pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.
My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I will reject you from being My priest. And because you have forgotten the law of your God, I will also forget your children.
But you say, ‘Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, “What you would have profited from me is a gift to God,”
You hypocrites, Isaiah well prophesied of you, saying:
making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have delivered. And you do many similar things.”
Do we then make the law void through faith? God forbid! Instead, we establish the law.
If any believing man or woman has widows, let those assist them. Do not let the church be charged, so that it may relieve those who are widows indeed.
But if any do not care for their own, and especially for those of their own house, they have denied the faith and are worse than unbelievers.