Bible verses about "traditions" | Living_Oracles

³ Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God? ⁴ For God has commanded, saying, "Honor father and mother"; and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death." ⁵ But you affirm, If a man say to father or mother, I devote whatever of mine shall profit you, ⁶ he shall not afterward honor by his assistance, his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God. ⁷ Hypocrites, well do you suit the character which Isaiah gave of you, saying, ⁸ "This people honor me with their lips. though their heart is estranged from me. ⁹ But in vain they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human." ¹⁰ Then, having called the multitude, he said to them, Hear, and be instructed. ¹¹ It is not what goes into the mouth pollutes the man; but it is what proceeds out of the mouth, that pollutes the man. ¹² On which his disciples accosting him, said, Did you observe how the Pharisees, when they heard that saying were offended? ¹³ He answered, Every plant, which my heavenly Father has not planted, shall be extirpated. ¹⁴ Let them alone. They are blind leaders of the blind; and if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into the ditch. ¹⁵ Then Peter addressing him, said, Explain to us that parable. ¹⁶ Jesus answered, Are you also void of understanding? ¹⁷ Do you not apprehend, that whatever enters the mouth passes into the stomach, and is thrown out into the sink. ¹⁸ But that which proceeds out of the mouth, issues from the heart, and so pollutes the man. ¹⁹ For out of the heart proceed malicious contrivances, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, calumnies. ²⁰ These are the things which pollute the man; but to eat with unwashed hands pollutes not the man.

² Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders; for they was not their hands before meals. ³ Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God? ⁴ For God has commanded, saying, "Honor father and mother"; and "Whosoever reviles father or mother, let him be punished with death." ⁵ But you affirm, If a man say to father or mother, I devote whatever of mine shall profit you, ⁶ he shall not afterward honor by his assistance, his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God.

⁶ Now, we command you, brethren, by the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly, and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

⁷ But reject profane and old wives' fables, and exercise yourself to godliness:

³ (for the Pharisees, and indeed all the Jews who observed the tradition of the elders, eat not until they have washed their hands by pouring a little water upon them: ⁴ and if they be come from the market, by dipping them; and many other usages there are, which they have adopted, as immersions of cups and pots, and brazen vessels and beds:) ⁵ then the Pharisees and Scribes asked him, Whence comes it that your disciples observe not the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands? ⁶ He answering, said to them, O hypocrites! well do you suit the character, which Isaiah gave of you, when he said, This people honor me with their lips; but their heart is estranged from me. ⁷ In vain, however, they worship me, while they teach institutions merely human." ⁸ For laying aside the commandment of God, you retain the traditions of men, immersions of pots and cups, and many other similar practices. ⁹ You judge well, continued he, in annulling the commandment of God, to make room for your traditions.

¹ Become imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. ² Now I praise you, brethren; because, in all things you remember me, and hold fast the traditions as I delivered them to you.

² proclaim the word, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke, exhort, with all long-suffering and teaching. ³ For there will be a time when they will not endure wholesome doctrine; but, having itching ears, they will, according to their own lusts, heap up to themselves teachers: ⁴ and they will, indeed, turn away their ears from the truth, and be turned aside to fables.

¹⁴ to which he called you, by our gospel, that you might obtain the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. ¹⁵ Well, then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the traditions which you have been taught, whether by our word or letter.

⁶ he shall not afterward honor by his assistance, his father or his mother. Thus, by your tradition, you annul the commandment of God.

² Now I praise you, brethren; because, in all things you remember me, and hold fast the traditions as I delivered them to you.

³ Jesus answering, said to them, Why do you yourselves by your tradition, transgress the commandment of God?

⁸ Beware lest any one make a prey of you through an empty and deceitful philosophy, -according to the tradition of men, according to the elements of the world, and not according to Christ.

¹⁵ Well, then, brethren, stand firm, and hold fast the traditions which you have been taught, whether by our word or letter.