Matthew 15:9

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

⁸ 'This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far, far away from me, ⁹ and they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'" ¹⁰ And summoning the crowd, he said to them, "Hear and understand:

Commandments of Men

It is I

No

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said, "Because this people draw near with its mouth, and with its lips it honors me, and its heart is far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men that has been taught,

Titus 1:14

not paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of people who turn away from the truth.

Exodus 20:7

"You shall not {misuse the name of Yahweh your God}, because Yahweh will not leave unpunished [anyone] who {misuses his name}.

Leviticus 26:16

I {in turn} will do this to you: then I will summon onto you horror, the wasting disease, and the fever that wastes eyes and that drains away life; and you shall sow your seed {in vain}, and your enemies shall eat it.

Leviticus 26:20

And your strength shall be consumed {in vain}; and your land shall not give its produce, and the land's trees shall not give their fruit.

Deuteronomy 12:32

All of the things that I [am] commanding you, {you must diligently observe}; you shall not add to it, and you shall not take away from it."

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had said, "Surely {in vain} I guarded all that this fellow had in the desert. And nothing was missed of all that [was] his, but he returned evil against me in place of good!

Psalm 39:6

Surely a man walks about as a [mere] {shadow}; surely in vain they bustle about. He heaps up [possessions] but does not know who [will] gather them [in].

Psalm 73:13

Surely in vain I have kept my heart pure, and washed my hands in innocence.

Proverbs 30:5-6

Every word of God [is] flawless; he [is] a shield for him who takes refuge in him.

Ecclesiastes 5:2-7

Do not be rash with your mouth, and do not let your heart be quick to utter a word before God. For God is in heaven, and you [are] on earth; therefore, let your words be few.

Isaiah 1:13-15

You must not {continue} to bring offerings of futility, incense--it [is] an abomination to me; new moon and Sabbath, [the] calling of a convocation-- I cannot endure iniquity with [solemn] assembly.

Isaiah 58:1-3

"Call with [the] throat; you must not keep back! lift up your voice like trumpet, and declare to my people their rebellion, and to the house of Jacob their sins.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, '[It is] useless to serve God! What [is the] gain if we keep his requirements, and if we walk as mourners {before} Yahweh of hosts?

Mark 7:7

And they worship me in vain, teaching [as] doctrines the commandments of men.'

1 Corinthians 15:2

by which you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the message I proclaimed to you, unless you believed to no purpose.

Colossians 2:18-22

Let no one condemn you, taking pleasure in humility and the worship of angels, going into detail [about] [the things] which he has seen, inflated without cause by his fleshly mind,

1 Timothy 1:4

and not to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause useless speculations rather than God's plan [that is] by faith.

1 Timothy 4:1-3

Now the Spirit explicitly says that in the last times some will depart from the faith, paying attention to deceitful spirits and teachings of demons,

1 Timothy 4:6-7

[By] teaching these [things] to the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the good teaching that you have followed faithfully.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by various and strange teachings, for [it is] good [for] the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by foods by which those who participate have not benefited.

James 2:20

But do you want to know, O foolish person, that faith apart from works is useless?

Revelation 22:18

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues written in this book.