Matthew 15:9

New American Bible - revised edition

in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’”

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

To be sure, you establish the expanse of my days; indeed, my life is as nothing before you. Every man is but a breath. Selah

Psalm 73:13

Is it in vain that I have kept my heart pure, washed my hands in innocence?

Exodus 20:7

You shall not invoke the name of the Lord, your God, in vain. For the Lord will not leave unpunished anyone who invokes his name in vain.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Since this people draws near with words only and honors me with their lips alone, though their hearts are far from me, And fear of me has become mere precept of human teaching,

Leviticus 26:16

then I, in turn, will do this to you: I will bring terror upon you—with consumption and fever to dim the eyes and sap the life. You will sow your seed in vain, for your enemies will consume the crop.

Leviticus 26:20

so that your strength will be spent in vain; your land will bear no crops, and its trees no fruit.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what do we gain by observing God’s requirements, And by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 15:10

He summoned the crowd and said to them, “Hear and understand.

Mark 7:7

In vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines human precepts.’

1 Corinthians 15:2

Through it you are also being saved, if you hold fast to the word I preached to you, unless you believed in vain.

1 Timothy 1:4

or to concern themselves with myths and endless genealogies, which promote speculations rather than the plan of God that is to be received by faith.

Titus 1:14

instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and regulations of people who have repudiated the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teaching. It is good to have our hearts strengthened by grace and not by foods, which do not benefit those who live by them.

James 2:20

Do you want proof, you ignoramus, that faith without works is useless?

Revelation 22:18

I warn everyone who hears the prophetic words in this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book,

1 Samuel 25:21

David had just been saying: “Indeed, it was in vain that I guarded all this man’s possessions in the wilderness, so that nothing of his was missing. He has repaid good with evil.