Traditions

So then, brothers, stand firm, and hold the traditions which you were taught by us, whether by word, or by letter.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

Now I praise you, brothers, that you remember me in all things, and hold firm the traditions, even as I delivered them to you.

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don’t eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. — read the full passage →

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Be imitators of me, even as I also am of Christ. — read the full passage →

Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

preach the word; be urgent in season and out of season; reprove, rebuke, and exhort, with all patience and teaching. — read the full passage →

to which he called you through our Good News, for the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ. — read the full passage →

But refuse profane and old wives’ fables. Exercise yourself toward godliness.

Hear the word which Yahweh speaks to you, house of Israel! — read the full passage →

The things which you have heard from me among many witnesses, commit the same to faithful men, who will be able to teach others also.

neither to pay attention to myths and endless genealogies, which cause disputes, rather than God’s stewardship, which is in faith—

He answered them, “Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? — read the full passage →

This is the bread which comes down out of heaven, that anyone may eat of it and not die. — read the full passage →

Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem. — read the full passage →

I testify to everyone who hears the words of the prophecy of this book, if anyone adds to them, may God add to him the plagues which are written in this book. — read the full passage →

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.” — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness,

Now these were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of the mind, examining the Scriptures daily to see whether these things were so.

You shall observe to do therefore as Yahweh your God has commanded you. You shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left. — read the full passage →

Now on the second Sabbath after the first, he was going through the grain fields. His disciples plucked the heads of grain, and ate, rubbing them in their hands. — read the full passage →

Now accept one who is weak in faith, but not for disputes over opinions.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,

“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

However when he, the Spirit of truth, has come, he will guide you into all truth, for he will not speak from himself; but whatever he hears, he will speak. He will declare to you things that are coming.

Then Jesus spoke to the multitudes and to his disciples, — read the full passage →

Hear Yahweh’s word, you rulers of Sodom! Listen to the law of our God, you people of Gomorrah! — read the full passage →

Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil; who put darkness for light, and light for darkness; who put bitter for sweet, and sweet for bitter!

There are also many other things which Jesus did, which if they would all be written, I suppose that even the world itself wouldn’t have room for the books that would be written.

Brothers, my heart’s desire and my prayer to God is for Israel, that they may be saved. — read the full passage →

Don’t you add to his words, lest he reprove you, and you be found a liar.

knowing this first, that no prophecy of Scripture is of private interpretation. — read the full passage →

For I received from the Lord that which also I delivered to you, that the Lord Jesus on the night in which he was betrayed took bread.

Now these things, brothers, I have in a figure transferred to myself and Apollos for your sakes, that in us you might learn not to think beyond the things which are written, that none of you be puffed up against one another.

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers, — read the full passage →

Sanctify them in your truth. Your word is truth.

There is a way which seems right to a man, but in the end it leads to death. — read the full passage →

Because Christ also suffered for sins once, the righteous for the unrighteous, that he might bring you to God; being put to death in the flesh, but made alive in the spirit; — read the full passage →

Whoever listens to you listens to me, and whoever rejects you rejects me. Whoever rejects me rejects him who sent me.”

Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who according to his great mercy became our father again to a living hope through the resurrection of Jesus Christ from the dead,

When therefore it was evening, on that day, the first day of the week, and when the doors were locked where the disciples were assembled, for fear of the Jews, Jesus came and stood in the midst, and said to them, “Peace be to you.” — read the full passage →

But that you may know that the Son of Man has authority on earth to forgive sins...” (then he said to the paralytic), “Get up, and take up your mat, and go up to your house.” — read the full passage →

But the Spirit says expressly that in later times some will fall away from the faith, paying attention to seducing spirits and doctrines of demons,

For I delivered to you first of all that which I also received: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures,

Paul, an apostle of Christ Jesus according to the commandment of God our Savior, and Christ Jesus our hope; — read the full passage →

The brothers immediately sent Paul and Silas away by night to Beroea. When they arrived, they went into the Jewish synagogue. — read the full passage →

Jesus came to them and spoke to them, saying, “All authority has been given to me in heaven and on earth. — read the full passage →

that your faith wouldn’t stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.

In all things I gave you an example, that so laboring you ought to help the weak, and to remember the words of the Lord Jesus, that he himself said, ‘It is more blessed to give than to receive.’”

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book;

He who rejects me, and doesn’t receive my sayings, has one who judges him. The word that I spoke, the same will judge him in the last day.

Since many have undertaken to set in order a narrative concerning those matters which have been fulfilled among us, — read the full passage →

For you have not come to a mountain that might be touched, and that burned with fire, and to blackness, darkness, storm, — read the full passage →

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus,

For this cause we also thank God without ceasing, that, when you received from us the word of the message of God, you accepted it not as the word of men, but, as it is in truth, the word of God, which also works in you who believe.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.” — read the full passage →

I tell you, make for yourselves friends by means of unrighteous mammon, so that when you fail, they may receive you into the eternal tents. — read the full passage →

I hate, I despise your feasts, and I can’t stand your solemn assemblies. — read the full passage →

You, Solomon my son, know the God of your father, and serve him with a perfect heart and with a willing mind; for Yahweh searches all hearts, and understands all the imaginations of the thoughts. If you seek him, he will be found by you; but if you forsake him, he will cast you off forever.

You shall not add to the word which I command you, neither shall you take away from it, that you may keep the commandments of Yahweh your God which I command you.

I write to you, fathers, because you know him who is from the beginning. I write to you, young men, because you have overcome the evil one. I write to you, little children, because you know the Father. — read the full passage →

And above all things be earnest in your love among yourselves, for love covers a multitude of sins.

Test all things, and hold firmly that which is good.

being built on the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Christ Jesus himself being the chief cornerstone;

If any man thinks himself to be a prophet, or spiritual, let him recognize the things which I write to you, that they are the commandment of the Lord.

The Lord said, “Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught; — read the full passage →

Counsel in the heart of man is like deep water; but a man of understanding will draw it out. — read the full passage →

Therefore Jesus did many other signs in the presence of his disciples, which are not written in this book; — read the full passage →

You will know the truth, and the truth will make you free.”

“Don’t think that I came to destroy the law or the prophets. I didn’t come to destroy, but to fulfill.

Moses spoke so to the children of Israel, but they didn’t listen to Moses for anguish of spirit, and for cruel bondage. — read the full passage →

for we walk by faith, not by sight. — read the full passage →

Whether then it is I or they, so we preach, and so you believed.

So faith comes by hearing, and hearing by the word of God.

My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. — read the full passage →

But the hour comes, and now is, when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such to be his worshipers. — read the full passage →

Now there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews. — read the full passage →

For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men’s shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

“If your brother sins against you, go, show him his fault between you and him alone. If he listens to you, you have gained back your brother. — read the full passage →

Because they ministered to them before their idols, and became a stumbling block of iniquity to the house of Israel; therefore have I lifted up my hand against them, says the Lord Yahweh, and they shall bear their iniquity. — read the full passage →

He shall build a house for my name, and I will establish the throne of his kingdom forever. — read the full passage →

When Yahweh your God cuts off the nations from before you, where you go in to dispossess them, and you dispossess them, and dwell in their land; — read the full passage →

“Remember the Sabbath day, to keep it holy. — read the full passage →

Every Scripture is God-breathed and profitable for teaching, for reproof, for correction, and for instruction in righteousness, — read the full passage →

But I make known to you, brothers, concerning the Good News which was preached by me, that it is not according to man. — read the full passage →

Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying, — read the full passage →

We have heard with our ears, God; our fathers have told us, what work you did in their days, in the days of old. — read the full passage →

“You shall not spread a false report. Don’t join your hand with the wicked to be a malicious witness. — read the full passage →

The great dragon was thrown down, the old serpent, he who is called the devil and Satan, the deceiver of the whole world. He was thrown down to the earth, and his angels were thrown down with him.

Beloved, while I was very eager to write to you about our common salvation, I was constrained to write to you exhorting you to contend earnestly for the faith which was once for all delivered to the saints.

From infancy, you have known the holy Scriptures which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith, which is in Christ Jesus.

Now the Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is, there is liberty.

Therefore I urge you, brothers, by the mercies of God, to present your bodies a living sacrifice, holy, acceptable to God, which is your spiritual service. — read the full passage →

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

See how good and how pleasant it is for brothers to live together in unity! — read the full passage →

Yahweh spoke to Moses and to Aaron, saying, — read the full passage →

He who loves pleasure shall be a poor man. He who loves wine and oil shall not be rich. — read the full passage →