Bible verses about "traditions" | Moffatt

³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition. ⁷ You hypocrites! Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you when he said, ⁸ This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁹ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts." ¹⁰ Then he called the crowd and said to them, "Listen, understand this: ¹¹ it is not what enters a man's mouth that defiles him, what defiles a man is what comes out of his mouth." ¹² Then the disciples came up and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees have taken offence at what they hear you say?" ¹³ He replied, "Any plant that my heavenly Father has not planted will be rooted up. ¹⁴ Let them alone; they are blind guides of the blind, and if one blind man leads another, both of them will fall into a pit." ¹⁵ Peter answered, "Explain this parable to us at anyrate." ¹⁶ He said, "And are you totally ignorant? ¹⁷ Do you not see how all that enters the mouth passes into the belly and is then thrown out into the drain, ¹⁸ while what comes out of the mouth comes from the heart — and that is what defiles a man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart come evil designs, murder, adultery, sexual vice, stealing, false witness, and slander. ²⁰ That is what defiles a man; a man is not defiled by eating with hands unwashed!"

² "Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they take their food." ³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions? ⁴ God enjoined, Honour your father and mother, and, He who curses his father or mother is to suffer death. ⁵ But you say, whoever tells his father or mother, 'This money might have been at your service but it is dedicated to God,' ⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

⁶ Brothers, we charge you in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to shun any brother who is loafing, instead of following the rule you got from us.

⁷ Shut your mind against these profane, drivelling myths; train for the religious life.

³ (The Pharisees and all the Jews decline to eat till they wash their hands up to the wrist, in obedience to the tradition of the elders; ⁴ they decline to eat what comes from the market till they have washed it; and they have a number of other traditions to keep about washing cups and jugs and basins [and beds].) ⁵ Then the Pharisees and scribes put this question to him, "Why do your disciples not follow the tradition of the elders? Why do they take their food with 'common' hands?" ⁶ He said to them, "Isaiah made a grand prophecy about you hypocrites — as it is written, This people honours me with their lips, but their heart is far away from me: ⁷ vain is their worship of me, for the doctrines they teach are but human precepts. ⁸ You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition. ⁹ Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

¹ Copy me, as I copy Christ. ² I commend you for always bearing me in mind and for maintaining the traditions I passed on to you.

² I adjure you to preach the word; keep at it in season and out of season, refuting, checking, and exhorting men; never lose patience with them, and never give up your teaching, ³ for the time will come when people will decline to be taught sound doctrine and will accumulate teachers to suit themselves and tickle their own fancies; ⁴ they will give up listening to the Truth and turn to myths.

¹⁴ it was for this that he called you by our gospel, to gain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Well then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the rules which you have learned from us orally or by letter.

⁶ need not honour his father or mother. So you have repealed the law of God to suit your own tradition.

² I commend you for always bearing me in mind and for maintaining the traditions I passed on to you.

³ He replied, "And why do you transgress the command of God with your traditions?

⁸ Beware of anyone getting hold of you by means of a theosophy which is specious make-believe, on the lines of human tradition, corresponding to the Elemental spirits of the world and not to Christ.

¹⁵ Well then, brothers, stand firm and hold to the rules which you have learned from us orally or by letter.