Matthew 15:3
He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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- Matt 7:3-5 : 3 Why do you see the speck in your brother’s eye, but fail to see the beam of wood in your own? 4 Or how can you say to your brother,‘Let me remove the speck from your eye,’ while there is a beam in your own? 5 You hypocrite! First remove the beam from your own eye, and then you can see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
- Mark 7:6-8 : 6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’ 8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
- Mark 7:13 : 13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
- Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful not to allow anyone to captivate you through an empty, deceitful philosophy that is according to human traditions and the elemental spirits of the world, and not according to Christ.
- Col 2:23 : 23 Even though they have the appearance of wisdom with their self-imposed worship and humility achieved by an unsparing treatment of the body– a wisdom with no true value– they in reality result in fleshly indulgence.
- Titus 1:14 : 14 and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.
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5 The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”
6 He said to them,“Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written:‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
7 They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
8 Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
9 He also said to them,“You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.
10 For Moses said,‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and,‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother,‘Whatever help you would have received from me is corban’(that is, a gift for God),
12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
13 Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
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1 Breaking Human Traditions Then Pharisees and experts in the law came from Jerusalem to Jesus and said,
2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
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4 For God said,‘Honor your father and mother’ and‘Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
5 But you say,‘If someone tells his father or mother,“Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
6 he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
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3 He answered them,“What did Moses command you?”
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9 and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
10 True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.
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3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.
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3 He answered them,“I will also ask you a question, and you tell me:
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2 But some of the Pharisees said,“Why are you doing what is against the law on the Sabbath?”
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5 But Jesus said to them,“He wrote this commandment for you because of your hard hearts.
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33 He answered them and said,“Who are my mother and my brothers?”
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2 But when the Pharisees saw this they said to him,“Look, your disciples are doing what is against the law to do on the Sabbath.”
3 He said to them,“Haven’t you read what David did when he and his companions were hungry–
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