Matthew 15:3

Good News Translation

Jesus answered, “And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!”

Matthew 15:4

For God said, ‘Respect your father and your mother,’ and ‘If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.’

Mark 7:13

In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”

Colossians 2:23

Of course such rules appear to be based on wisdom in their forced worship of angels, and false humility, and severe treatment of the body; but they have no real value in controlling physical passions.

Colossians 2:8

See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ.

Titus 1:14

and no longer hold on to Jewish legends and to human commandments which come from people who have rejected the truth.