Bible Cross References
profited
Isaiah 29:13
The Lord said, "These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.
Isaiah 57:12
You think that what you do is right, but I will expose your conduct, and your idols will not be able to help you.
being
Acts 22:3
"I am a Jew, born in Tarsus in Cilicia, but brought up here in Jerusalem as a student of Gamaliel. I received strict instruction in the Law of our ancestors and was just as dedicated to God as are all of you who are here today.
Acts 26:5
They have always known, if they are willing to testify, that from the very first I have lived as a member of the strictest party of our religion, the Pharisees.
Acts 26:9
"I myself thought that I should do everything I could against the cause of Jesus of Nazareth.
Philippians 3:4-6
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I could, of course, put my trust in such things. If any of you think you can trust in external ceremonies, I have even more reason to feel that way.
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I was circumcised when I was a week old. I am an Israelite by birth, of the tribe of Benjamin, a pure-blooded Hebrew. As far as keeping the Jewish Law is concerned, I was a Pharisee,
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and I was so zealous that I persecuted the church. As far as a person can be righteous by obeying the commands of the Law, I was without fault.
traditions
Jeremiah 15:2
When they ask you where they should go, tell them that I have said: Some are doomed to die by disease--- that's where they will go! Others are doomed to die in war--- that's where they will go! Some are doomed to die of starvation--- that's where they will go! Others are doomed to be taken away as prisoners--- that's where they will go!
Matthew 15:2
"Why is it that your disciples disobey the teaching handed down by our ancestors? They don't wash their hands in the proper way before they eat!"
Matthew 15:3
Jesus answered, "And why do you disobey God's command and follow your own teaching?
Matthew 15:6
they do not need to honor their father. In this way you disregard God's command, in order to follow your own teaching.
Mark 7:3-13
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(For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way;
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nor do they eat anything that comes from the market unless they wash it first. And they follow many other rules which they have received, such as the proper way to wash cups, pots, copper bowls, and beds. )
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So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, "Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?"
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Jesus answered them, "How right Isaiah was when he prophesied about you! You are hypocrites, just as he wrote: 'These people, says God, honor me with their words, but their heart is really far away from me.
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It is no use for them to worship me, because they teach human rules as though they were my laws!'
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"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."
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And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.
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For Moses commanded, 'Respect your father and your mother,' and, 'If you curse your father or your mother, you are to be put to death.'
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But you teach that if people have something they could use to help their father or mother, but say, 'This is Corban' (which means, it belongs to God),
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they are excused from helping their father or mother.
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In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do."
Colossians 2:8
See to it, then, that no one enslaves you by means of the worthless deceit of human wisdom, which comes from the teachings handed down by human beings and from the ruling spirits of the universe, and not from Christ.
1 Peter 1:8
You love him, although you have not seen him, and you believe in him, although you do not now see him. So you rejoice with a great and glorious joy which words cannot express,