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 transgress the tradition of the elders, for they wash not their hands when they eat bread?

And Peter answering, and the apostles, said, It is necessary to obey God rather than man.

Let every soul be subject to the superior powers. For there is no power except from God, and the [powers] which exist have been ordained by God.

And he came to the other, and said the same. And he answered and said, I will go sir, but went not.

and believe yourself to be a guide of the blind, a light of those in darkness,

having a form of piety but denying its power; and these avoid.

They profess to know God, but by works deny him, being abominable and disobedient, and as to every good work reprobate.