Matthew 15:3
Jesus replied, "And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?
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Matthew 15:2
"Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands when they eat."

Matthew 15:4
For God said: 'Honor your father and mother' and 'Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.'

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Matthew 7:3-5
Why do you look at the speck in your brother's eye, but fail to notice the beam in your own eye? . . .

Mark 7:6-8, 13
Jesus answered them, "Isaiah prophesied correctly about you hypocrites, as it is written: 'These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. . . .

Colossians 2:8, 23
See to it that no one takes you captive through philosophy and empty deception, which are based on human tradition and the spiritual forces of the world rather than on Christ. . . .

Titus 1:14
and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

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