Matthew 15:6

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

Cross References

Matthew 15:5

But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, I have given to God the money I could have helped you with;’

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied accurately about you, saying [Isa. 29:13],

Mark 7:13

You are making God’s message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that.”

Romans 3:31

Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.

1 Timothy 5:16

[So], if any woman believer has widows [in her family], she should take care of them and not require the church to be burdened, so that it can take care of the true widows [i.e., destitute ones].

1 Timothy 5:8

But if anyone does not provide for [the needs of] his own [relatives], and especially for his own [immediate] family, he has denied the faith [i.e., the fundamental beliefs of Christianity], and is worse than an unbeliever.