Malachi 2:9

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Summary

Therefore have I also made you contemptible and base before all the people, according as ye have not kept my ways, but have been partial in the law.

Before

Mark 7:13

Luke 20:45

But

Romans 7:7

Bible References

Before

That is repealing the word of God in the interests of the tradition which you keep up. And you do many things like that."

And in the hearing of all the people he said to his disciples,

But

You have heard how the men of old were told, 'Murder not: whoever murders must come up for sentence,

He said to him, "Why do you ask me about what is good? One alone is good. But if you want to get into Life, keep the commands."

Woe to you, blind guides that you are! you say, 'Swear by the sanctuary, and it means nothing; but swear by the gold of the sanctuary, and the oath is binding.'

You drop what God commands and hold to human tradition.

Anxious to make an excuse for himself, however, he said to Jesus, "But who is my neighbour?"

But woe to you Pharisees! you tithe mint and rue and every vegetable, but justice and the love of God you disregard; these latter you ought to have practised ??without omitting the former.

What follows, then? That 'the Law is equivalent to sin'? Never! Why, had it not been for the Law, I would never have known what sin meant! Thus I would never have known what it is to covet, unless the Law had said, You must not covet.