Matthew 15:9

New English Translation

and they worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely people go through life as mere ghosts. Surely they accumulate worthless wealth without knowing who will eventually haul it away.”

Psalm 73:13

I concluded, “Surely in vain I have kept my motives pure and maintained a pure lifestyle.

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not take the name of the Lord your God in vain, for the Lord will not hold guiltless anyone who takes his name in vain.

Isaiah 29:13

The sovereign master says, “These people say they are loyal to me; they say wonderful things about me, but they are not really loyal to me. Their worship consists of nothing but man-made ritual.

Leviticus 26:16

I for my part will do this to you: I will inflict horror on you, consumption and fever, which diminish eyesight and drain away the vitality of life. You will sow your seed in vain because your enemies will eat it.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength will be used up in vain, your land will not give its yield, and the trees of the land will not produce their fruit.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, ‘It is useless to serve God. How have we been helped by keeping his requirements and going about like mourners before the Lord who rules over all?

Matthew 15:10

Then he called the crowd to him and said, “Listen and understand.

Mark 7:7

They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’

1 Corinthians 15:2

and by which you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message I preached to you – unless you believed in vain.

Deuteronomy 12:32

(13:1) You must be careful to do everything I am commanding you. Do not add to it or subtract from it!

1 Timothy 1:4

nor to occupy themselves with myths and interminable genealogies. Such things promote useless speculations rather than God’s redemptive plan that operates by faith.

Titus 1:14

and not pay attention to Jewish myths and commands of people who reject the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

James 2:20

But would you like evidence, you empty fellow, that faith without works is useless?

Revelation 22:18

I testify to the one who hears the words of the prophecy contained in this book: If anyone adds to them, God will add to him the plagues described in this book.

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had been thinking, “In vain I guarded everything that belonged to this man in the desert. I didn’t take anything from him. But he has repaid my good with evil.