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Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honor me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
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Titus 1:14
and may not pay attention to Jewish myths and the commands of people who reject the truth.
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Mark 7:7-13
They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines human commands.Abandoning the command of God, you hold on to human tradition.”He also said to them,“ You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition!For Moses said: Honor your father and your mother; and Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.But you say,‘ If anyone tells his father or mother: Whatever benefit you might have received from me is corban’”( that is, an offering devoted to God),“ you no longer let him do anything for his father or mother.You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.”
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1 Corinthians 6 13
“ Food is for the stomach and the stomach for food,” and God will do away with both of them. However, the body is not for sexual immorality but for the Lord, and the Lord for the body.
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Matthew 15:3-9
He answered them,“ Why do you break God’s commandment because of your tradition?For God said: Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must be put to death.But you say,‘ Whoever tells his father or mother,“ Whatever benefit you might have received from me is a gift committed to the temple,”he does not have to honor his father.’ In this way, you have nullified the word of God because of your tradition.Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said:This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrines human commands.”
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Daniel 11:37
He will not show regard for the gods of his ancestors, the god desired by women, or for any other god, because he will magnify himself above all.
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John 6:27
Don’t work for the food that perishes but for the food that lasts for eternal life, which the Son of Man will give you, because God the Father has set his seal of approval on him.”
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Isaiah 29:18
On that day the deaf will hear the words of a document, and out of a deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
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Mark 7:18-19
He said to them,“ Are you also as lacking in understanding? Don’t you realize that nothing going into a person from the outside can defile him?For it doesn’t go into his heart but into the stomach and is eliminated”( thus he declared all foods clean).
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Revelation 17:18
And the woman you saw is the great city that has royal power over the kings of the earth.”