Matthew 15:6

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they are not to honor their father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

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  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for the LORD to act, for they have broken Your law.
  • 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 If anyone does not provide for their own, and especially for their own household, they have denied the faith and are worse than an unbeliever.
  • 1 Tim 5:16 : 16 If any believing man or woman has widows, let them help them and not let the church be burdened, so that it may assist those who are truly widows.
  • Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal consumes me because my adversaries forget Your words.
  • Jer 8:8 : 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?
  • Hos 4:6 : 6 My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.
  • Mal 2:7-9 : 7 For the lips of a priest should guard knowledge, and people should seek instruction from his mouth, because he is the messenger of the Lord of Hosts. 8 But you have turned aside from the way, and by your teaching have caused many to stumble. You have violated the covenant with Levi, says the Lord of Hosts. 9 So I have also made you despised and humiliated before all the people, because you have not kept My ways but have shown partiality in matters of the law.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law by this faith? Absolutely not! Instead, we uphold the law.
  • 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows who are truly widows. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, let them first learn to show respect within their own family and repay their parents, for this is pleasing in the sight of God.

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    2“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”

    3Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

    4For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.’

    5But you say that if anyone declares to their father or mother, ‘What you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

  • Mark 7:5-13
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    5So the Pharisees and the scribes questioned Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?"

    6He answered them, "Isaiah rightly prophesied about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'This people honors Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.'

    7They worship Me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

    8You have abandoned the commandment of God and hold onto human traditions, including the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other similar things."

    9He also said to them, "How skillfully you set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your own tradition.

    10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.'

    11But you say, 'If anyone says to his father or mother, "Whatever help you might have received from me is Corban"' (that is, devoted to God),

    12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.

    13You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that."

  • Matt 15:7-10
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    7You hypocrites! Isaiah was right when he prophesied about you, saying,

    8‘These people honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me.

    9They worship me in vain; their teachings are merely human rules.’

    10Jesus called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand:

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    1Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is the right thing to do.

    2"Honor your father and mother" (this is the first commandment with a promise),

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    19'Honor your father and your mother,' and 'Love your neighbor as yourself.'"

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    16Honor your father and your mother, as the LORD your God has commanded you, so that you may live long and that it may go well for you in the land the LORD your God is giving you.

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    12Honor your father and your mother, so that your days may be long in the land that the LORD your God is giving you.

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    16Cursed is anyone who dishonors his father or mother. Then all the people shall say, 'Amen.'

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