Matthew 15:9

Matthew 15:9
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

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Matthew 15:7
You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

Matthew 15:8
These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Isaiah 29:13
And the Lord said, because this people come near to me with their mouths, and give honour to me with their lips, but their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is false, a rule given them by the teaching of men;

Romans 10:2
For I give witness of them that they have a strong desire for God, but not with knowledge.

Romans 10:3
Because, not having knowledge of God's righteousness, and desiring to give effect to their righteousness, they have not put themselves under the righteousness of God.

Matthew 15:13
But he said in answer, Every plant which my Father in heaven has not put in the earth, will be taken up by the roots.

Matthew 23:23
A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

1 Samuel 16:7
But the Lord said to Samuel, Do not take note of his face or how tall he is, because I will not have him: for the Lord's view is not man's; man takes note of the outer form, but the Lord sees the heart.

Psalms 50:15
Let your voice come up to me in the day of trouble; I will be your saviour, so that you may give glory to me.

Matthew 6:1
Take care not to do your good works before men, to be seen by them; or you will have no reward from your Father in heaven.

Matthew 6:5
And when you make your prayers, be not like the false-hearted men, who take pleasure in getting up and saying their prayers in the Synagogues and at the street turnings so that they may be seen by men. Truly I say to you, They have their reward.

Matthew 6:7
And in your prayer do not make use of the same words again and again, as the Gentiles do: for they have the idea that God will give attention to them because of the number of their words.

Matthew 9:14
Then the disciples of John came to him, saying, Why do we and the Pharisees frequently go without food, but your disciples do not?

Luke 18:12
Twice in the week I go without food; I give a tenth of all I have.

Philippians 3:6
In bitter hate I was cruel to the church; I kept all the righteousness of the law to the last detail.

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Colossians 2:8
Take care that no one takes you away by force, through man's wisdom and deceit, going after the beliefs of men and the theories of the world, and not after Christ:

Colossians 2:18
Let no man take your reward from you by consciously making little of himself and giving worship to angels; having his thoughts fixed on the things which he has seen, being foolishly lifted up in his natural mind,

Colossians 2:20
If you were made free, by your death with Christ, from the rules of the world, why do you put yourselves under the authority of orders

Colossians 2:21
Which say there may be no touching, tasting, or taking in your hands,

Colossians 2:22
(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

Colossians 2:23
These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

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Mark 7:6
And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

Mark 7:7
But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

Mark 7:8
For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

Mark 7:9
And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

Mark 7:10
For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

Mark 7:11
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

Mark 7:12
You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

Matthew 15:2
Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Matthew 15:3
And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

Matthew 15:4
For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

Matthew 15:5
But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

Matthew 15:6
There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

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Titus 1:14
Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

1 Timothy 1:7
Desiring to be teachers of the law, though they have no knowledge of what they say or of the statements which they make so certainly.

1 Timothy 4:1
But the Spirit says clearly that in later times some will be turned away from the faith, giving their minds to spirits of deceit, and the teachings of evil spirits,

1 Timothy 4:2
Through the false ways of men whose words are untrue, whose hearts are burned as with a heated iron;

1 Timothy 4:3
Who keep men from being married and from taking food which God made to be taken with praise by those who have faith and true knowledge.

1 Timothy 6:3
If any man gives different teaching, not in agreement with the true words of our Lord Jesus Christ, and with the teaching which is in agreement with true religion,

2 Peter 2:1
But there were false prophets among the people, as there will be false teachers among you, who will secretly put forward wrong teachings for your destruction, even turning away from the Lord who gave himself for them; whose destruction will come quickly, and they themselves will be the cause of it.

Matthew 5:19
Whoever then goes against the smallest of these laws, teaching men to do the same, will be named least in the kingdom of heaven; but he who keeps the laws, teaching others to keep them, will be named great in the kingdom of heaven.

2 Timothy 4:3
For the time will come when they will not take the true teaching; but, moved by their desires, they will get for themselves a great number of teachers for the pleasure of hearing them;

Titus 1:11
By whom some families have been completely overturned; who take money for teaching things which are not right; these will have to be stopped.

Hebrews 13:9
Do not be turned away by different strange teachings, because it is good for your hearts to be made strong by grace, and not by meats, which were of no profit to those who took so much trouble over them.

1 Timothy 1:4
Or to give attention to stories and long lists of generations, from which come questionings and doubts, in place of God's ordered way of life which is in faith;

1 Timothy 4:6
If you keep these things before the minds of the brothers, you will be a good servant of Christ Jesus, trained in the words of the faith and of the right teaching which has been your guide:

1 Timothy 4:7
But have nothing to do with unclean and foolish stories. Give yourself training in religion:

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Isaiah 1:13
Give me no more false offerings; the smoke of burning flesh is disgusting to me, so are your new moons and Sabbaths and your holy meetings.

Isaiah 1:14
Your new moons and your regular feasts are a grief to my soul: they are a weight in my spirit; I am crushed under them.

Isaiah 1:15
And when your hands are stretched out to me, my eyes will be turned away from you: even though you go on making prayers, I will not give ear: your hands are full of blood.

Isaiah 1:11
What use to me is the number of the offerings which you give me? says the Lord; your burned offerings of sheep, and the best parts of fat cattle, are a weariness to me; I take no pleasure in the blood of oxen, or of lambs, or of he-goats.

Psalms 50:21
These things have you done, and I said nothing; it seemed to you that I was such a one as yourself; but I will make a protest against you, and put them in order before your eyes.

Proverbs 15:8
The offering of the evil-doer is disgusting to the Lord, but the prayer of the upright man is his delight.

Isaiah 66:3
He who puts an ox to death puts a man to death; he who makes an offering of a lamb puts a dog to death; he who makes a meal offering makes an offering of pig's blood; he who makes an offering of perfumes for a sign gives worship to an image: as they have gone after their desires, and their soul takes pleasure in their disgusting things;

Hosea 6:6
Because my desire is for mercy and not offerings; for the knowledge of God more than for burned offerings.

Amos 4:5
Let that which is leavened be burned as a praise-offering, let the news of your free offerings be given out publicly; for this is pleasing to you, O children of Israel, says the Lord.

James 4:3
You make your request but you do not get it, because your request has been wrongly made, desiring the thing only so that you may make use of it for your pleasure.

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John 4:24
God is Spirit: then let his worshippers give him worship in the true way of the spirit.

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Deuteronomy 4:2
Make no addition to the orders which I give you, and take nothing from them, but keep the orders of the Lord your God which I give you.

Deuteronomy 12:32
You are to keep with care all the words I give you, making no addition to them and taking nothing from them.

Proverbs 30:6
Make no addition to his words, or he will make clear your error, and you will be seen to be false.

Revelation 22:18
For I say to every man to whose ears have come the words of this prophet's book, If any man makes an addition to them, God will put on him the punishments which are in this book:

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Isaiah 58:1
Make a loud cry, do not be quiet, let your voice be sounding like a horn, and make clear to my people their evil doings, and to the family of Jacob their sins.

Isaiah 58:2
Though they make prayer to me every day, and take pleasure in the knowledge of my ways: like a nation which has done righteousness, and has not given up the rules of their God, they make requests to me for the right orders, it is their delight to come near to God.

Isaiah 58:3
They say, Why have we kept ourselves from food, and you do not see it? why have we kept ourselves from pleasure, and you take no note of it? If, in the days when you keep from food, you take the chance to do your business, and get in your debts;

Malachi 3:14
You have said, It is no use worshipping God: what profit have we had from keeping his orders, and going in clothing of sorrow before the Lord of armies?

James 2:20
Do you not see, O foolish man, that faith without works is of no use?

1 Corinthians 15:2
By which you have salvation; that is to say, the form in which it was given to you, if it is fixed in your minds, and if your faith in it is not without effect.

James 1:26
If a man seems to have religion and has no control over his tongue but lets himself be tricked by what is false, this man's religion is of no value.

Psalms 73:13
As for me, I have made my heart clean to no purpose, washing my hands in righteousness;

Isaiah 44:20
As for him whose food is the dust of a dead fire, he has been turned from the way by a twisted mind, so that he is unable to keep himself safe by saying, What I have here in my hand is false.

Ezekiel 33:31
And they come to you as my people come, and are seated before you as my people, hearing your words but doing them not: for deceit is in their mouth and their heart goes after profit for themselves.

1 Corinthians 15:14
And if Christ did not come again from the dead, then our good news and your faith in it are of no effect.

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1 Chronicles 28:11
Then David gave to his son Solomon the design of the doorway of the house of God and of its houses and its store-houses, and the higher rooms and the inner rooms and the place for the mercy-seat;

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1 Chronicles 28:19
All this, said David, the design for all these things, has been made dear to me in writing by the hand of the Lord.

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John 4:23
But the time is coming, and is even now here, when the true worshippers will give worship to the Father in the true way of the spirit, for these are the worshippers desired by the Father.

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Matthew 23:13
But a curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! because you are shutting the kingdom of heaven against men: for you do not go in yourselves, and those who are going in, you keep back.

Matthew 23:24
You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

Galatians 1:14
And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

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