Matthew 23:3

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All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, that observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

why do your disciples violate the tradition of our ancestors, in not washing their hands when they eat bread?

then Peter and the other apostles made answer, we ought to obey God rather than men.

Be every one of you subject to the ruling powers. for every ruler holds of God: the rulers in being are constituted by God.

then he came to the other, and bid him do the same. and he answered, yes, sir; but went not.

you think you are a guide to the blind, a light to those who are in darkness,

of which they wear the appearance, but disclaim its influence. have no intercourse with such.

they make a profession of knowing God; but in fact they deny him, being execrably incredulous, and utter strangers to all virtue.