Matthew 15:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’ ”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ But in vain they do worship me, Teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ Uselessly do they worship Me, for they teach as doctrines the commands of men. [Isa. 29:13.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁹ But in vain do they worship me, Teaching as their doctrines the precepts of men.

Common English Bible

⁹ Their worship of me is empty since they teach instructions that are human rules.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ For in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and commandments of men.' "

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁹ And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men.

Matthew 15:9 Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely man goes about as a shadow! Surely for naught are they in turmoil; man heaps up, and knows not who will gather!

Psalm 73:13

All in vain have I kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless who takes his name in vain.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Leviticus 26:16

I will do this to you: I will appoint over you sudden terror, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. And you shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it;

Leviticus 26:20

and your strength shall be spent in vain, for your land shall not yield its increase, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is vain to serve God. What is the good of our keeping his charge or of walking as in mourning before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 15:10

And he called the people to him and said to them, “Hear and understand:

Mark 7:7

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the precepts of men.’

1 Corinthians 15:2

by which you are saved, if you hold it fast—unless you believed in vain.

Deuteronomy 12:32

“Everything that I command you shall be careful to do; you shall not add to it or take from it.

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies which promote speculations rather than the divine training that is in faith;

Titus 1:14

instead of giving heed to Jewish myths or to commands of men who reject the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by diverse and strange teachings; for it is well that the heart be strengthened by grace, not by foods, which have not benefited their adherents.

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you shallow man, that faith apart from works is barren?

Revelation 22:18

I warn every one who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if any one adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had said, “Surely in vain have I guarded all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him; and he has returned me evil for good.