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

For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

And honour not his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.

This people draweth nigh unto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:

And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.

If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee so, then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.

Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.

Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear it, and do it.

And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:

According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, to the right hand, nor to the left.

Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.

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

Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

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

But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or that thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?

When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.

Thou sittest and speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.

And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,

Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?

Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?

Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.

They profess that they know God; but in works they deny him, being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.