Mark 7:11
Good News Translation
But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),

New Revised Standard Version
But you say that if anyone tells father or mother, ‘Whatever support you might have had from me is Corban’ (that is, an offering to God )—

Contemporary English Version
But you let people get by without helping their parents when they should. You let them say that what they own has been offered to God.

New American Bible
Yet you say, ‘If a person says to father or mother, “Any support you might have had from me is qorban” ’ (meaning, dedicated to God),

Douay-Rheims Bible
But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban (which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban (which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee.

It is Corban.

Matthew 15:5 But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.

Matthew 23:18 And whosoever shall swear by the altar, it is nothing; but whosoever shall swear by the gift that is upon it is a debtor.

1 Timothy 5:4-8 But if any widow have children or grandchildren, let her learn first to govern her own house and to make a return of duty to her parents; for this is acceptable before God. . . .

Context
Tradition and Worship
10For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die. 11But you say: If a man shall say to his father or mother, Corban (which is a gift) whatsoever is from me shall profit thee. 12And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother,…
Cross References
Leviticus 1:2
Speak to the children of Israel, and thou shalt say to them: The man among you that shall offer to the Lord a sacrifice of the cattle, that is, offering victims of oxen and sheep:

Matthew 15:5
But you say: Whosoever shall say to father or mother, The gift whatsoever proceedeth from me, shall profit thee.

Matthew 27:6
But the chief priests having taken the pieces of silver, said: It is not lawful to put them into the corbona, because it is the price of blood.

Mark 7:12
And further you suffer him not to do any thing for his father or mother,

Mark 7:10
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