Bible Verses About Tradition
Bible verses about Tradition
Discover what the Bible says about tradition.
Each verse has been chosen for its relevance and insight into this important biblical topic.
Most Helpful Verses
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Which we have heard and known, and our fathers have told us.
Remove not the ancient landmark, which thy fathers have set.
We have heard with our ears, O God, our fathers have told us, what work thou didst in their days, in the times of old.
Scripture Passages
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
But he answered and said to them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
And honor not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands often eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, [as] the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.
And he said to them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition,
Beware lest any man make a prey of you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
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 from us.
Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, [as] silver and gold, from your vain course of life [received] by tradition from your fathers;
Making the word of God of no effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
And profited in the Jews' religion above many my equals in my own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.