Verse 13

You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

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  • Mark 7:9 : 9 He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.
  • Hos 8:12 : 12 Though I wrote for them the many things of my law, they regarded them as something foreign.
  • Titus 1:14 : 14 not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and human commandments that turn away from the truth.
  • Ezek 18:14 : 14 Now suppose this person has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed. Though he sees them, he does not do such things:
  • Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Do not think that I have come to abolish the law or the prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. 18 For truly I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not the smallest letter, not a single stroke of a pen, will disappear from the law until everything is accomplished. 19 So whoever breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do so will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever obeys them and teaches others will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the scribes and Pharisees, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven.
  • Matt 15:6 : 6 they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:3 : 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands carefully, holding to the tradition of the elders.
  • Gal 5:21 : 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Isa 8:20 : 20 To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  • Jer 8:8-9 : 8 How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us,’ when the false pen of the scribes has produced lies? 9 The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have rejected the word of the LORD, what wisdom do they really have?