Matthew 15:3 Cross References - Murdock

³ Jesus replied and said to them: Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God, on account of your tradition?

³ And why observest thou the straw in thy brother's eye, and regardest not the beam that is in thine own eye? ⁴ Or how canst thou say to thy brother, Allow me to pluck the straw from thy eye; and lo! a beam is in thy own eye. ⁵ Thou hypocrite; pluck first the beam from thy own eye; and then thou wilt see clearly, to pluck the straw out of thy brother's eye. ⁶ And he said to them: Well did Isaiah the prophet prophecy concerning you, ye hypocrites; as it is written: This people honoreth me with its lips, but their heart is very far from me. ⁷ And in vain do they give me reverence, while teaching as doctrines the precepts of men. ⁸ For ye have forsaken the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men, the baptisms of cups, and of pots, and many things like these.

¹³ And ye reject the word of God, on account of the tradition which ye hand down. And many things like these, ye do.

⁸ Beware, lest any man make you naked by philosophy, and by vain deception, according to the doctrines of men, according to the rudiments of the world, and not according to the Messiah,

²³ And they seem to have a kind of wisdom, in a show of humility, and of the fear of God, and of not sparing the body; not in any thing of excellence, but in things subservient to the body.

¹⁴ and may not throw themselves into Jewish fables, and into the precepts of men who hate the truth.