Bible Verses About Observance of Tradition

Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

And teach customs, which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans.

Therefore shall ye keep mine ordinance, that ye commit not any one of these abominable customs, which were committed before you, and that ye defile not yourselves therein: I am the Lord your God.

Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.

For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.

Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.

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.

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

They shall therefore keep mine ordinance, lest they bear sin for it, and die therefore, if they profane it: I the Lord do sanctify them.

Brethren, I write no new commandment unto you, but an old commandment which ye had from the beginning. The old commandment is the word which ye have heard from the beginning.

All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

For he established a testimony in Jacob, and appointed a law in Israel, which he commanded our fathers, that they should make them known to their children:

Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.

Thou shalt therefore keep this ordinance in his season from year to year.

Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;

Let no man therefore judge you in meat, or in drink, or in respect of an holyday, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath days:

Render therefore to all their dues: tribute to whom tribute is due; custom to whom custom; fear to whom fear; honour to whom honour.

Moses therefore gave unto you circumcision; (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers;) and ye on the sabbath day circumcise a man.

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?

And ye shall observe this thing for an ordinance to thee and to thy sons for ever.

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

For ye know what commandments we gave you by the Lord Jesus.

As touching the Gentiles which believe, we have written and concluded that they observe no such thing, save only that they keep themselves from things offered to idols, and from blood, and from strangled, and from fornication.

What thing soever I command you, observe to do it: thou shalt not add thereto, nor diminish from it.

They kept also the feast of tabernacles, as it is written, and offered the daily burnt offerings by number, according to the custom, as the duty of every day required;

Ye shall do my judgments, and keep mine ordinances, to walk therein: I am the Lord your God.

The Jews ordained, and took upon them, and upon their seed, and upon all such as joined themselves unto them, so as it should not fail, that they would keep these two days according to their writing, and according to their appointed time every year;

For the customs of the people are vain: for one cutteth a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman, with the axe.

Ye shall not add unto the word which I command you, neither shall ye diminish ought from it, that ye may keep the commandments of the Lord your God which I command you.

For we have heard him say, that this Jesus of Nazareth shall destroy this place, and shall change the customs which Moses delivered us.

My son, keep thy father’s commandment, and forsake not the law of thy mother:

Forbidding to marry, and commanding to abstain from meats, which God hath created to be received with thanksgiving of them which believe and know the truth.

When thou art come into the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.

Whose adorning let it not be that outward adorning of plaiting the hair, and of wearing of gold, or of putting on of apparel;

For after this manner in the old time the holy women also, who trusted in God, adorned themselves, being in subjection unto their own husbands:

Not purloining, but shewing all good fidelity; that they may adorn the doctrine of God our Saviour in all things.

Unto this day they do after the former manners: they fear not the Lord, neither do they after their statutes, or after their ordinances, or after the law and commandment which the Lord commanded the children of Jacob, whom he named Israel;

And ye shall observe to do all the statutes and judgments which I set before you this day.