Malachi 2:8

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

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But ye are departed out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble at the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith the LORD of hosts.

See to it, brothers, that there shall never be in any one of you an evil and unbelieving heart, manifesting itself in apostasy from the living God.

"Why do your disciples keep transgressing the tradition of the elders by not washing their hands before eating?"

Hereupon one of the lawyers exclaimed, "But teacher, in saying such things you are also reproaching us also."

and are confident that you yourself are a darkness,

The right course is not to eat meat, nor to drink wine, nor to do anything through which your brother is made to stumble.