Mark 7:8
“For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.”
He answered and said unto them, Well hath Esaias prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoureth me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
Cross-References
“For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.”
“Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.”
“Lo, this only have I found, that God hath made man upright; but they have sought out many inventions.”
“Then there arose a question between some of John’s disciples and the Jews about purifying.”
“For I was alive without the law once: but when the commandment came, sin revived, and I died.”