Mark 7:9
He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.
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- Isaiah 29:13 The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and honors me with their lips, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
- Jeremiah 44:16–17 “As for the word that you have spoken to us in Yahweh’s name, we will not listen to you. But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
- Galatians 2:21 I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”