Matthew 15:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

So, for the sake of your tradition, you have made void the word of God.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

and honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

So for the sake of your tradition (the rules handed down by your forefathers), you have set aside the Word of God [depriving it of force and authority and making it of no effect].

American Standard Version (1901)

he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

Common English Bible

So you do away with God’s Law for the sake of the rules that have been handed down to you.

Catholic Public Domain Version

then he shall not honor his father or his mother.' So have you nullified the commandment of God, for the sake of your tradition.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he shall not honour his father or his mother: and you have made void the commandment of God for your tradition.

Matthew 15:6 Cross References

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the Lord to act, for thy law has been broken.

Psalm 119:139

My zeal consumes me, because my foes forget thy words.

Jeremiah 8:8

“How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the law of the Lord is with us’? But behold, the false pen of the scribes has made it into a lie.

Hosea 4:6

My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge; because you have rejected knowledge, I reject you from being a priest to me. And since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will forget your children.

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘If any one tells his father or his mother, What you would have gained from me is given to God, he need not honor his father.’

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said:

Mark 7:13

thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law by this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

1 Timothy 5:16

If any believing woman has relatives who are widows, let her assist them; let the church not be burdened, so that it may assist those who are real widows.

1 Timothy 5:8

If any one does not provide for his relatives, and especially for his own family, he has disowned the faith and is worse than an unbeliever.