'Tradition' in the Bible
"Why do your disciples disregard the tradition of the elders? They don't wash their hands when they eat."
But he answered them, "Why do you also disregard the commandment of God because of your tradition?
does not have to honor his father.' Because of your tradition, then, you have disregarded the authority of God's word.
(The Pharisees and indeed all the Jewish people don't eat unless they wash their hands properly, following the tradition of their elders.
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked Jesus, "Why don't your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders? Instead, they eat with unclean hands."
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition."
Then he told them, "You have such a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!
You are destroying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other things like that."
See to it that no one enslaves you through philosophy and empty deceit according to human tradition, according to the basic principles of the world, and not according to the Messiah,
In the name of our Lord Jesus, the Messiah, we command you, brothers, to keep away from every brother who is living in idleness and not living according to the tradition that they received from us.