Quotes about Tradition
There is a generation of those who curse their fathers and do not bless their mothers.
- Proverbs 30:11
I would lead you and bring you to the house of my mother who taught me. I would give you spiced wine to drink, the nectar of my pomegranates.
- Song of Solomon 8:2
I hate your New Moons and your appointed feasts. They have become a burden to Me; I am weary of bearing them.
- Isaiah 1:14
their signet rings and nose rings;
- Isaiah 3:21
Instead, they have followed the stubbornness of their hearts and gone after the Baals, as their fathers taught them.”
- Jeremiah 9:14
You must not carry a load out of your houses or do any work on the Sabbath day, but you must keep the Sabbath day holy, just as I commanded your forefathers.
- Jeremiah 17:22
Take wives and have sons and daughters. Take wives for your sons and give your daughters in marriage, so that they too may have sons and daughters. Multiply there; do not decrease.
- Jeremiah 29:6
Then I set pitchers full of wine and some cups before the men of the house of the Rechabites, and I said to them, “Drink some wine.”
- Jeremiah 35:5
“We do not drink wine,” they replied, “for our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab commanded us, ‘Neither you nor your descendants are ever to drink wine.
- Jeremiah 35:6
And we have obeyed the voice of our forefather Jonadab son of Rechab in all he commanded us. So we have not drunk wine all our lives—neither we nor our wives nor our sons and daughters.
- Jeremiah 35:8
But we have lived in tents and have obeyed and done exactly as our forefather Jonadab commanded us.
- Jeremiah 35:10
Yes, the sons of Jonadab son of Rechab carried out the command their forefather gave them, but these people have not listened to Me.
- Jeremiah 35:16