6 Jesus answered, "Isaiah was right when he spoke about you hypocrites. He wrote,
'These people show honor to me with words,
but their hearts are far from me.
7 Their worship of me is worthless.
The things they teach are nothing but human rules.' — Isaiah 29:13 8 You have stopped following the commands of God, and you follow only human teachings."
9 Then Jesus said to them, "You cleverly ignore the commands of God so you can follow your own teachings. 10 Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Anyone who says cruel things to his father or mother must be put to death.' 11 But you say a person can tell his father or mother, 'I have something I could use to help you, but it is Corban—a gift to God.' 12 You no longer let that person use that money for his father or his mother. 13 By your own rules, which you teach people, you are rejecting what G od said. And you do many things like that."
Matthew 23:13-15 (New International Version)
13 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You shut the kingdom of heaven in men's faces. You yourselves do not enter, nor will you let those enter who are trying to.
15 "Woe to you, teachers of the law and Pharisees, you hypocrites! You travel over land and sea to win a single convert, and when he becomes one, you make him twice as much a son of hell as you are.
AND what group are YOU a part of?
2 Corinthians 5:17 (New International Version)
17 Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the n ew has come!
Romans 6:4 (New International Version)
4 We were therefore buried with him through baptism into death in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead through the glory of the Father, we too may live a new life.
John 6:54 (New International Version)
54 Whoever eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up at the last day.
Blessings,
Stephen