Mark 7:9
And He said to them, "You are good at rejecting the commandment of God so you can keep your traditions.
Mark 7:13
You are making God's message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that."
Galatians 2:21
[In doing this] I am not trying to disregard God's unearned favor, for if a person could become right with God by [perfect obedience to the requirements of] the law of Moses, then Christ died for nothing.
Matthew 15:3-6
And He answered them, "Why do you also violate the commandments of God by [following] your traditions?
Mark 7:3
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).
Romans 3:31
Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.
2 Thessalonians 2:4
[for] he opposes [the true Gospel message] and exalts himself against everything that is called "God" or that which is worshiped. So, he sits in God's temple [i.e., the church ?] displaying himself as [though he were] God.