Matthew 23:3

New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

therefore, do whatever they teach you and follow it, but do not do as they do, for they do not practice what they teach.

Cross References

2 Chronicles 30:12

The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the officials commanded by the word of the Lord.

Exodus 18:23

If you do this and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all these people will go to their homes in peace.”

Matthew 21:30

The father went to the second and said the same, and he answered, ‘I go, sir,’ but he did not go.

Matthew 23:2

“The scribes and the Pharisees sit on Moses’s seat;

Matthew 23:4

They tie up heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on the shoulders of others, but they themselves are unwilling to lift a finger to move them.

Acts 5:29

But Peter and the apostles answered, “We must obey God rather than any human authority.

Romans 13:1

Let every person be subject to the governing authorities, for there is no authority except from God, and those authorities that exist have been instituted by God.

Deuteronomy 4:5

“See, just as the Lord my God has charged me, I now teach you statutes and ordinances for you to observe in the land that you are about to enter and occupy.

Deuteronomy 5:27

Go near, you yourself, and hear all that the Lord our God will say. Then tell us everything that the Lord our God tells you, and we will listen and do it.’

2 Timothy 3:5

holding to the outward form of godliness but denying its power. Avoid them!

Titus 1:16

They profess to know God, but they deny him by their actions; they are detestable, disobedient, unfit for any good work.