Colossians 2:22

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Colossians 2:20–23 · Berean Standard Bible

20 If you have died with Christ to the spiritual forces of the world, why, as though you still belonged to the world, do you submit to its regulations:

21 “Do not handle, do not taste, do not touch!”?

22 These will all perish with use, because they are based on human commands and teachings.

23 Such restrictions indeed have an appearance of wisdom, with their self-prescribed worship, their false humility, and their harsh treatment of the body; but they are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

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Isaiah 29:13

Therefore the Lord said: “These people draw near to Me with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me. Their worship of Me is but rules taught by men.

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Jesus replied, “And why do you break the command of God for the sake of your tradition?

Matthew 15:4

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Matthew 15:5

But you say that if anyone says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is a gift devoted to God,’

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he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

Matthew 15:7

You hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you:

Matthew 15:8

‘These people honor Me with their lips, but their hearts are far from Me.

Matthew 15:9

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’”

Mark 7:7

They worship Me in vain; they teach as doctrine the precepts of men.’

Mark 7:8

You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”

Mark 7:9

He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.

Mark 7:10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’ and ‘Anyone who curses his father or mother must be put to death.’

Mark 7:11

But you say that if a man says to his father or mother, ‘Whatever you would have received from me is Corban’ (that is, a gift devoted to God),

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he is no longer permitted to do anything for his father or mother.

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Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”

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and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.

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And the woman you saw is the great city that rules over the kings of the earth.”