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nor give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which generate questions other than that the edification of God is by faith.

Verse Concepts

Foolish QuestionsFools, Characteristics OfFalse ReligionFablesFalse Doctrines, AvoidanceMyths

Continual SinHow Faith ComesTeaching The Way Of Godattentionstories

But refuse profane and old wives' fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.

Verse Concepts

Figures Of SpeechGodlessnessHeresiesIntolerancePutting Off The Old ManRumoursSelf DisciplineUngodlinessMythsWeak WomenAvoiding Evil

PurposeGodly WomanRejectionExerciseGrandmotherstrainingpracticeshunningpietystories

But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother, and, He that curses father or mother, let him die without recourse. But ye say, Whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, Whatever I might have helped thee with is already my offering unto God, read more.
and now has no need to honour his father or his mother with succour. Thus ye have made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition. Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying, This people draws nigh unto me with their mouth and honours me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. But in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and commandments of men. And calling the multitude unto him, he said unto them, Hear and understand: not that which goes into the mouth defiles the man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles the man. Then his disciples came and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended when they heard this word? But he answered and said, Every plant which my heavenly Father has not planted shall be rooted up. Let them alone; they are blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead the blind, both shall fall into a pit. Then Peter answered and said unto him, Declare unto us this parable. And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding? Do not ye yet understand that whatever enters in at the mouth goes into the belly and is cast out into the draught? But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth from the heart, and they defile the man. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies: these are the things which defile the man, but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile the man.