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- Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal hath consumed me, Because mine adversaries have forgotten thy words.
- Mal 2:7-9 : 7 For the priest's lips should keep knowledge, and they should seek the law at his mouth; for he is the messenger of Jehovah of hosts. 8 But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts. 9 Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have had respect of persons in the law.
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- Matt 15:2-54 verses88%
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];
- Mark 7:5-139 verses84%
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;
13making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
- Matt 15:7-104 verses80%
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11There is a generation that curse their father, And bless not their mother.
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24Whoso robbeth his father or his mother, and saith, It is no transgression, The same is the companion of a destroyer.