Matthew 15:6
he does not need to honor his father.’ You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
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- Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for the LORD to act– they break your law!
- 1 Tim 5:8 : 8 But if someone does not provide for his own, especially his own family, he has denied the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.
- 1 Tim 5:16 : 16 If a believing woman has widows in her family, let her help them. The church should not be burdened, so that it may help the widows who are truly in need.
- Ps 119:139 : 139 My zeal consumes me, for my enemies forget your instructions.
- Jer 8:8 : 8 How can you say,“We are wise! We have the law of the LORD”? The truth is, those who teach it have used their writings to make it say what it does not really mean.
- Hos 4:6 : 6 You have destroyed my people by failing to acknowledge me! Because you refuse to acknowledge me, I will reject you as my priests. Because you reject the law of your God, I will reject your descendants.
- Mal 2:7-9 : 7 For the lips of a priest should preserve knowledge of sacred things, and people should seek instruction from him because he is the messenger of the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 8 You, however, have turned from the way. You have caused many to violate the law; you have corrupted the covenant with Levi,” says the LORD of Heaven’s Armies. 9 “Therefore, I have caused you to be ignored and belittled before all people to the extent to which you are not following after me and are showing partiality in your instruction.”
- 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.”
- Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! Instead we uphold the law.
- 1 Tim 5:3-4 : 3 Honor widows who are truly in need. 4 But if a widow has children or grandchildren, they should first learn to fulfill their duty toward their own household and so repay their parents what is owed them. For this is what pleases God.
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- Matt 15:2-54 verses88%
2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
3 He answered them,“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
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,”
- Mark 7:5-139 verses84%
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.”
- Matt 15:7-104 verses80%
7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
8 ‘This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me,
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.
- Eph 6:1-22 verses74%
1 Children, obey your parents in the Lord, for this is right.
2 “Honor your father and mother,” which is the first commandment accompanied by a promise, namely,
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19 honor your father and mother, and love your neighbor as yourself.”
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16 Honor your father and your mother just as the LORD your God has commanded you to do, so that your days may be extended and that it may go well with you in the land that he is about to give you.
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12 “Honor your father and your mother, that you may live a long time in the land the LORD your God is giving to you.
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16 ‘Cursed is the one who disrespects his father and mother.’ Then all the people will say,‘Amen!’
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20 You know the commandments:‘Do not commit adultery, do not murder, do not steal, do not give false testimony, honor your father and mother.’”
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19 You know the commandments:‘Do not murder, do not commit adultery, do not steal, do not give false testimony, do not defraud, honor your father and mother.’”
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20 My child, guard the commands of your father and do not forsake the instruction of your mother.
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37 “Whoever loves father or mother more than me is not worthy of me, and whoever loves son or daughter more than me is not worthy of me.
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11 There is a generation who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
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15 “Whoever strikes his father or his mother must surely be put to death.
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9 Family Life and Sexual Prohibitions“‘If anyone curses his father and mother he must be put to death. He has cursed his father and mother; his blood guilt is on himself.
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26 The one who robs his father and chases away his mother is a son who brings shame and disgrace.
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17 “Whoever treats his father or his mother disgracefully must surely be put to death.
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23 so that all people will honor the Son just as they honor the Father. The one who does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him.
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6 The Sacrilege of Priestly Service“A son naturally honors his father and a slave respects his master. If I am your father, where is my honor? If I am your master, where is my respect? The LORD of Heaven’s Armies asks you this, you priests who make light of my name! But you reply,‘How have we made light of your name?’
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15 But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.
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15 But if you do not forgive others, your Father will not forgive you your sins.
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5 Or have you not read in the law that the priests in the temple desecrate the Sabbath and yet are not guilty?
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12 Brother will hand over brother to death, and a father his child. Children will rise against parents and have them put to death.
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9 And call no one your‘father’ on earth, for you have one Father, who is in heaven.
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7 If you had known what this means:‘I want mercy and not sacrifice,’ you would not have condemned the innocent.
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1 Pure-hearted Giving“Be careful not to display your righteousness merely to be seen by people. Otherwise you have no reward with your Father in heaven.
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48 To the one who had said this, Jesus replied,“Who is my mother and who are my brothers?”
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3 Each of you must respect his mother and his father, and you must keep my Sabbaths. I am the LORD your God.
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23 You who boast in the law dishonor God by transgressing the law!
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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 Then he said to them,“The Son of Man is lord of the Sabbath.”
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36 So if the son sets you free, you will be really free.
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33 Oaths“Again, you have heard that it was said to an older generation,‘Do not break an oath, but fulfill your vows to the Lord.’
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20 These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”