Matthew 15:3

New International Version

Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Matthew 15:4

For God said, ‘Honor your father and mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses their father or mother is to be put to death.’

Mark 7:13

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Colossians 2:23

Such regulations indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-imposed worship, their false humility and their harsh treatment of the body, but they lack any value in restraining sensual indulgence.

Colossians 2:8

See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy, which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces of this world rather than on Christ.

Titus 1:14

and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.