Quotes about Customs
To this day they are still practicing their former customs. None of them worship the LORD or observe the statutes, ordinances, laws, and commandments that the LORD gave the descendants of Jacob, whom He named Israel.
- 2 Kings 17:34
But they would not listen, and they persisted in their former customs.
- 2 Kings 17:40
For the customs of the peoples are worthless; they cut down a tree from the forest; it is shaped with a chisel by the hands of a craftsman.
- Jeremiah 10:3
You must not enter a house where there is feasting and sit down with them to eat and drink.
- Jeremiah 16:8
“Why do Your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They do not wash their hands before they eat.”
- Matthew 15:2
These are what defile a man, but eating with unwashed hands does not defile him.”
- Matthew 15:20
“Yes,” he answered. When Peter entered the house, Jesus preempted him. “What do you think, Simon?” He asked. “From whom do the kings of the earth collect customs and taxes: from their own sons, or from others?”
- Matthew 17:25
the greetings in the marketplaces, and the title of ‘Rabbi’ by which they are addressed.
- Matthew 23:7
Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
- Mark 7:3
You have disregarded the commandment of God to keep the tradition of men.”
- Mark 7:8
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
- Mark 7:13
For we have heard him say that Jesus of Nazareth will destroy this place and change the customs that Moses handed down to us.”
- Acts 6:14