# “Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition\. You hypocrites\! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you: ‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me\. They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules\.’” Matthew 15:6b\-9

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