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Matthew 15:2

"Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread."

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  • Mark 7:2

    "And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault."

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  • Luke 11:38

    "And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first washed before dinner."

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  • Colossians 2:8

    "Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ."

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  • Colossians 2:20

    "Wherefore if ye be dead with Christ from the rudiments of the world, why, as though living in the world, are ye subject to ordinances,"

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  • Mark 7:5

    "Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashen hands?"

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  • 1 Peter 1:18

    "Forasmuch as ye know that ye were not redeemed with corruptible things, as silver and gold, from your vain conversation received by tradition from your fathers;"

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  • Genesis 1:14

    "And God said, Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years:"

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