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- Titus 1:14 : 14 not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.
- Matt 5:17-20 : 17 Think not that I came to destroy the law or the prophets: I came not to destroy, but to fulfil. 18 For verily I say unto you, Till heaven and earth pass away, one jot or one tittle shall in no wise pass away from the law, till all things be accomplished. 19 Whosoever therefore shall break one of these least commandments, and shall teach men so, shall be called least in the kingdom of heaven: but whosoever shall do and teach them, he shall be called great in the kingdom of heaven. 20 For I say unto you, that except your righteousness shall exceed [the] [righteousness] of the scribes and Pharisees, ye shall in no wise enter into the kingdom of heaven.
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- Mark 7:2-1211 verses85%
2and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.
3(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;
4and [when they come] from the marketplace, except {G3361} they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels.)
5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.
7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.
8Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.
9And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.
10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:
11but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];
12ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;
- Matt 15:2-76 verses84%
2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.
5But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God];
6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
- Matt 15:9-113 verses76%
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18For there is {G3303} a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness
- Acts 7:51-522 verses69%
51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.
52Which of the prophets did not your fathers persecute? and they killed them that showed before of the coming of the Righteous One; of whom ye have now become betrayers and murderers;
- Matt 23:23-253 verses68%
23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.
24Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!
25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.
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