Matthew 15:9

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

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

Cross References

Psalm 39:6

Surely everyone goes about like a shadow. Surely for nothing they are in turmoil; they heap up and do not know who will gather.

Psalm 73:13

All in vain I have kept my heart clean and washed my hands in innocence.

Exodus 20:7

“You shall not make wrongful use of the name of the Lord your God, for the Lord will not acquit anyone who misuses his name.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Leviticus 26:16

I in turn will do this to you: I will bring terror on you, consumption and fever that waste the eyes and cause life to pine away. You shall sow your seed in vain, for your enemies shall eat it.

Leviticus 26:20

Your strength shall be spent to no purpose: your land shall not yield its produce, and the trees of the land shall not yield their fruit.

Malachi 3:14

You have said, “It is vain to serve God. What do we profit by keeping his command or by going about as mourners before the Lord of hosts?

Matthew 15:10

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

Mark 7:7

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

1 Corinthians 15:2

through which also you are being saved, if you hold firmly to the message that I proclaimed to you—unless you have come to believe in vain.

Deuteronomy 12:32

You must diligently observe everything that I command you; do not add to it or take anything from it.

1 Timothy 1:4

and not to occupy themselves with myths and endless genealogies that promote speculations rather than the divine training that is known by faith.

Titus 1:14

not paying attention to Jewish myths or to commandments of those who reject the truth.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be carried away by all kinds of strange teachings, for it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not by regulations about food, which have not benefited those who observe them.

James 2:20

Do you want to be shown, you senseless person, that faith apart from works is worthless?

Revelation 22:18

I warn everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book: if anyone adds to them, God will add to that person the plagues described in this book;

1 Samuel 25:21

Now David had said, “Surely it was in vain that I protected all that this fellow has in the wilderness, so that nothing was missed of all that belonged to him, but he has returned me evil for good.