Why do Your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and your mother; and, He who curses father or mother, let him die the death.

and he does not honor his father or mother. Thus you have voided the commandment of God by your tradition.

These people draw near to Me with their mouth, and honor Me with their lips, but their heart is far from Me.

Listen now to my voice; I will give you counsel, and God be with you: Be before God for the people, so that you may bring the matters to God.

And you shall teach them the statutes and the Laws, and show them the way in which they should walk and the work they should do.

If you do this thing, and God so commands you, then you will be able to endure, and all this people will also go to their place in peace.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, just as Jehovah my God has commanded me, for you to do them in the midst of the land which you are going in to possess.

You go near and hear all that Jehovah our God shall say, and you speak to us all that Jehovah our God shall speak to you; and we will hear and do it.

And you shall come to the priests, the Levites, and to the judge who is there in those days, and inquire; and they shall declare to you the judgment of the case.

According to the mouth of the law which they instruct you, according to the judgment which they command you, you shall do; you shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left from the word which they declare to you.

Also the hand of God was on Judah to give them singleness of heart to obey the command of the king and the rulers, at the Word of Jehovah.

But Peter and the other apostles answered and said: We ought to obey God rather than men.

Let every soul be subject to the higher authorities. For there is no authority except from God, and the authorities that exist are ordained by God.

And he came to the second and said likewise. And he answered and said, I go, sir, but he did not go.

But to the wicked God says, What is it you do, to declare My Statutes, and to take up My Covenant in your mouth;

When you saw a thief, then you were pleased to be with him, and have been a partaker with adulterers.

You sit and speak against your brother; you slander your own mother's son.

and are confident that you yourself are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

You, therefore, who teach another, do you not teach yourself? You who preach that a man should not steal, do you steal?

You who make your boast in the Law, do you dishonor God through transgressing the Law?

having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away.

They profess to know God, but in works they deny Him, being abominable, disobedient, and reprobate with regard to every good work.