Bible verses about "traditions" | Darby

¹ Hear the word that Jehovah speaketh unto you, house of Israel. ² Thus saith Jehovah: Learn not the way of the nations, and be not dismayed at the signs of the heavens; for the nations are dismayed at them. ³ For the statutes of the peoples are vanity; for [it is] a tree cut out of the forest, worked with a chisel by the hands of the artizan; ⁴ they deck it with silver and with gold; they fasten it with nails and with hammers, that it move not. ⁵ They are as a palm-column of turned work, and they speak not; they are carried, for they cannot go. Be not afraid of them; for they cannot do evil, neither also is it in them to do good.

³ But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching? ⁴ For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵ But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited: ⁶ and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching. ⁷ Hypocrites! well has Esaias prophesied about you, saying, ⁸ This people honour me with the lips, but their heart is far away from me; ⁹ but in vain do they worship me, teaching [as] teachings commandments of men. ¹⁰ And having called to [him] the crowd, he said to them, Hear and understand: ¹¹ Not what enters into the mouth defiles the man; but what goes forth out of the mouth, this defiles the man. ¹² Then his disciples, coming up, said to him, Dost thou know that the Pharisees, having heard this word, have been offended? ¹³ But he answering said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. ¹⁴ Leave them alone; they are blind leaders of blind: but if blind lead blind, both will fall into a ditch. ¹⁵ And Peter answering said to him, Expound to us this parable. ¹⁶ But he said, Are *ye* also still without intelligence? ¹⁷ Do ye not yet apprehend, that everything that enters into the mouth finds its way into the belly, and is cast forth into the draught? ¹⁸ but the things which go forth out of the mouth come out of the heart, and those defile man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witnessings, blasphemies; ²⁰ these are the things which defile man; but the eating with unwashen hands does not defile man.

² Why do thy disciples transgress what has been delivered by the ancients? for they do not wash their hands when they eat bread. ³ But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching? ⁴ For God commanded saying, Honour father and mother; and, He that speaks ill of father or mother, let him die the death. ⁵ But *ye* say, Whosoever shall say to his father or mother, It is a gift, whatsoever [it be] by which [received] from me thou wouldest be profited: ⁶ and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

⁶ Now we enjoin you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw from every brother walking disorderly and not according to the instruction which he received from us.

⁷ But profane and old wives` fables avoid, but exercise thyself unto piety;

³ (for the Pharisees and all the Jews, unless they wash their hands diligently, do not eat, holding what has been delivered by the ancients; ⁴ and [on coming] from the market-place, unless they are washed, they do not eat; and there are many other things which they have received to hold, the washing of cups and vessels, and brazen utensils, and couches), ⁵ then the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why do thy disciples not walk according to what has been delivered by the ancients, but eat the bread with defiled hands? ⁶ But he answering said to them, Well did Esaias prophesy concerning you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honour me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me. ⁷ But in vain do they worship me, teaching [as their] teachings commandments of men. ⁸ [For], leaving the commandment of God, ye hold what is delivered by men [to keep] -- washings of vessels and cups, and many other such like things ye do. ⁹ And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves [to keep].

² proclaim the word; be urgent in season [and] out of season, convict, rebuke, encourage, with all longsuffering and doctrine. ³ For the time shall be when they will not bear sound teaching; but according to their own lusts will heap up to themselves teachers, having an itching ear; ⁴ and they will turn away their ear from the truth, and will have turned aside to fables.

¹⁴ whereto he has called you by our glad tidings, to [the] obtaining of [the] glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.

¹ Be my imitators, even as *I* also [am] of Christ. ² Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

⁶ and he shall in no wise honour his father or his mother; and ye have made void the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching.

² Now I praise you, that in all things ye are mindful of me; and that as I have directed you, ye keep the directions.

³ But he answering said to them, Why do *ye* also transgress the commandment of God on account of your traditional teaching?

⁸ See that there be no one who shall lead *you* away as a prey through philosophy and vain deceit, according to the teaching of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁵ So then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the instructions which ye have been taught, whether by word or by our letter.