Matthew 15:9

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Their worship of me is pointless. What they teach are just man-made requirements.’”

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Human beings are just shadows walking around. They pointlessly rush through life, trying to pile up possessions without knowing who will get them.

Psalm 73:13

It's been pointless to keep my mind pure and my hands clean.

Exodus 20:7

You must not use the name of the Lord your God in a wrong way, for the Lord will not forgive anyone who uses his name in a wrong way.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says, “These people come and praise me with their words, and honor me with lip service, but their thoughts are miles away. Their worship of me only consists of them following rules people have taught them.

Leviticus 26:16

then this is what I am going to do to you: I will make you panic, and suffer from diseases like tuberculosis and fever that make you blind and drain your life away. It will be pointless for you to sow seed in your fields because your enemies will eat the harvest.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be completely wasted because your land won't produce crops, and your trees won't produce fruit.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “What's the point of serving God? What benefit is there in keeping his commandments or going before the Lord Almighty with long faces?

Matthew 15:10

He called the crowd over and told them, “Listen, and understand this:

Mark 7:7

There's no point in their worship of me, for what they teach as doctrines are merely human rules.’

1 Corinthians 15:2

It is through this good news that you are saved if you hold on to the message that I gave you. Otherwise you trusted for nothing!

Deuteronomy 12:32

Be careful to do everything I order you to do. Don't add or take away anything from these instructions.

1 Timothy 1:4

They shouldn't concern themselves with legends and never-ending obsessions about ancestry. Such ideas only lead to pointless debates, instead of understanding God as we trust in him.

Titus 1:14

not paying attention to Jewish myths and human commandments from those who deviate from the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Don't get distracted by different kinds of strange teachings. It's good for the mind to be convinced by grace, not by laws concerning what we eat. Those who followed such laws didn't gain anything.

James 2:20

You foolish people! Don't you know that trust in God without doing what's right is worthless?

Revelation 22:18

I solemnly declare to everyone who hears the prophetic words of this book that if anyone adds to them then God will add to them the plagues described in this book.

1 Samuel 25:21

David had just been complaining, “So much for my protecting everything that belonged to this man in the wilderness! Nothing at all was stolen from him, and yet what does he do? Pay me back evil for good!