Matthew 15:9

Catholic Public Domain Version

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

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

You have accomplished your many wonders, O Lord my God, and there is no one similar to you in your thoughts. I have announced and I have spoken: they are multiplied beyond number.

Psalm 73:13

In your virtue, you confirmed the sea. You crushed the heads of the serpents in the waters.

Exodus 20:7

You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain. For the Lord will not hold harmless one who takes the name of the Lord his God falsely.

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: Since this people have drawn near to me only with their mouth, and their lips glorify me while their heart is far from me, and their fear of me is based on the commandments and doctrines of men,

Leviticus 26:16

then I also will do these things to you. I will quickly visit you with destitution, and burning heat, which will waste away your eyes, and consume your lives. In vain will you sow your seed, which will be devoured by your enemies.

Leviticus 26:20

Your labor will be consumed to no purpose; the land will not bring forth seedlings, nor will the trees provide their fruit.

Malachi 3:14

And you have said, "What have we spoken against you?" You have said, "He labors in vain who serves God," and, "What advantage is it that we have kept his precepts, and that we have walked sorrowfully in the sight of the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 15:10

And having called the multitudes to him, he said to them: "Listen and understand.

Mark 7:7

And in vain do they worship me, teaching the doctrines and precepts of men.'

1 Corinthians 15:2

By the Gospel, too, you are being saved, if you hold to the understanding that I preached to you, lest you believe in vain.

Deuteronomy 12:32

What I command to you, this only shall you do, for the Lord. You may neither add nor subtract anything."

1 Timothy 1:4

against those who have been paying attention to fables and endless genealogies. These things present questions as if they were greater than the edification that is of God, which is in faith.

Titus 1:14

not paying attention to Jewish fables, nor to the rules of men who have turned themselves away from the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.

James 2:20

So then, are you willing to understand, O foolish man, that faith without works is dead?

Revelation 22:18

For I call as witnesses all listeners of the words of the prophecy of this book. If anyone will have added to these, God will add upon him the afflictions written in this book.

1 Samuel 25:21

And David said: "Truly, in vain have I preserved all that was his in the wilderness, so that nothing perished out of all that belonged to him. And he has repaid evil to me for good.