¹ Then the scribes and Pharisees from Jerusalem come up to Jesus, saying,

² Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

³ But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

⁴ For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death.

⁵ But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited:

⁶ and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

⁷ Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying,

⁸ This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me;

⁹ but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men.

¹⁰ And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand:

¹¹ Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man.

¹² Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended?

¹³ But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up.

¹⁴ Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch.

¹⁵ And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable.

¹⁶ But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence?

¹⁷ Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught?

¹⁸ but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man.

¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies;

²⁰ these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

²¹ And Jesus, going forth from thence, went away into the parts of Tyre and Sidon;

²² and lo, a Canaanitish woman, coming out from those borders, cried [to him] saying, Have pity on me, Lord, Son of David; my daughter is miserably possessed by a demon.

²³ But he did not answer her a word. And his disciples came to [him] and asked him, saying, Dismiss her, for she cries after us.

²⁴ But he answering said, I have not been sent save to the lost sheep of Israel's house.

²⁵ But she came and did him homage, saying, Lord, help me.

²⁶ But he answering said, It is not well to take the bread of the children and cast it to the dogs.

²⁷ But she said, Yea, Lord; for even the dogs eat of the crumbs which fall from the table of their masters.

²⁸ Then Jesus answering said to her, O woman, thy faith [is] great. Be it to thee as thou desirest. And her daughter was healed from *that* hour.

²⁹ And Jesus, going away from thence, came towards the sea of Galilee, and he went up into the mountain and sat down there;

³⁰ and great crowds came to him, having with them lame, blind, dumb, crippled, and many others, and they cast them at his feet, and he healed them:

³¹ so that the crowds wondered, seeing dumb speaking, crippled sound, lame walking, and blind seeing; and they glorified the God of Israel.

³² But Jesus, having called his disciples to [him], said, I have compassion on the crowd, because they have stayed with me already three days and they have not anything they can eat, and I would not send them away fasting lest they should faint on the way.

³³ And his disciples say to him, Whence should we have so many loaves in [the] wilderness as to satisfy so great a crowd?

³⁴ And Jesus says to them, How many loaves have ye? But they said, Seven, and a few small fishes.

³⁵ And he commanded the crowds to lie down on the ground;

³⁶ and having taken the seven loaves and the fishes, having given thanks, he broke [them] and gave [them] to his disciples, and the disciples to the crowd.

³⁷ And all ate and were filled; and they took up what was over and above of the fragments seven baskets full;

³⁸ but they that ate were four thousand men, besides women and children.

³⁹ And, having dismissed the crowds, he went on board ship and came to the borders of Magadan.

¹ There is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in Christ Jesus, who don't walk according to the flesh, but according to the Spirit.

² For the law of the Spirit of life in Christ Jesus made me free from the law of sin and of death.

³ For what the law couldn't do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;

⁴ that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.

⁵ For those who live according to the flesh set their minds on the things of the flesh, but those who live according to the Spirit, the things of the Spirit.

⁶ For the mind of the flesh is death, but the mind of the Spirit is life and peace;

⁷ because the mind of the flesh is hostile towards God; for it is not subject to God's law, neither indeed can it be.

⁸ Those who are in the flesh can't please God.

⁹ But you are not in the flesh but in the Spirit, if it is so that the Spirit of God dwells in you. But if any man doesn't have the Spirit of Christ, he is not his.

¹⁰ If Christ is in you, the body is dead because of sin, but the spirit is alive because of righteousness.

¹¹ But if the Spirit of him who raised up Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised up Christ Jesus from the dead will also give life to your mortal bodies through his Spirit who dwells in you.

¹² So then, brothers, we are debtors, not to the flesh, to live after the flesh.

¹³ For if you live after the flesh, you must die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the deeds of the body, you will live.

¹⁴ For as many as are led by the Spirit of God, these are children of God.

¹⁵ For you didn't receive the spirit of bondage again to fear, but you received the spirit of adoption, by whom we cry, "Abba! Father!"

¹⁶ The Spirit himself testifies with our Spirit that we are children of God;

¹⁷ and if children, then heirs; heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ; if indeed we suffer with him, that we may also be glorified with him.

¹⁸ For I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which will be revealed toward us.

¹⁹ For the creation waits with eager expectation for the children of God to be revealed.

²⁰ For the creation was subjected to vanity, not of its own will, but because of him who subjected it, in hope

²¹ that the creation itself also will be delivered from the bondage of decay into the liberty of the glory of the children of God.

²² For we know that the whole creation groans and travails in pain together until now.

²³ Not only so, but ourselves also, who have the first fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for adoption, the redemption of our body.

²⁴ For we were saved in hope, but hope that is seen is not hope. For who hopes for that which he sees?

²⁵ But if we hope for that which we don't see, we wait for it with patience.

²⁶ In the same way, the Spirit also helps our weaknesses, for we don't know how to pray as we ought. But the Spirit himself makes intercession for us with groanings which can't be uttered.

²⁷ He who searches the hearts knows what is on the Spirit's mind, because he makes intercession for the saints according to God.

²⁸ We know that all things work together for good for those who love God, to those who are called according to his purpose.

²⁹ For whom he foreknew, he also predestined to be conformed to the image of his Son, that he might be the firstborn among many brothers.

³⁰ Whom he predestined, those he also called. Whom he called, those he also justified. Whom he justified, those he also glorified.

³¹ What then shall we say about these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?

³² He who didn't spare his own Son, but delivered him up for us all, how would he not also with him freely give us all things?

³³ Who could bring a charge against God's chosen ones? It is God who justifies.

³⁴ Who is he who condemns? It is Christ who died, yes rather, who was raised from the dead, who is at the right hand of God, who also makes intercession for us.

³⁵ Who shall separate us from the love of Christ? Could oppression, or anguish, or persecution, or famine, or nakedness, or peril, or sword?

³⁶ Even as it is written, "For your sake we are killed all day long. We were accounted as sheep for the slaughter."

³⁷ No, in all these things, we are more than conquerors through him who loved us.

³⁸ For I am persuaded, that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers,

³⁹ nor height, nor depth, nor any other created thing, will be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.