Matthew 15:2 Cross References - Rotherham

² Wherefore do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands, when they eat bread!

¹⁴ And God said––Let there be luminaries in the expanse of the heavens, to divide between the day and the night,––and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days and years;

² and, observing certain of his disciples, that, with defiled hands, that is unwashed, they are eating bread,––––

⁵ and so the Pharisees and the Scribes, question, him––For what cause do thy disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but, with defiled hands, eat bread?

³⁸ And, the Pharisee, beholding, marveled that he was not, first, immersed, before the dinner.

⁸ Be taking heed, lest there shall be anyone leading, you, off as a spoil, through means of their philosophy, and an empty deceit,––according to the instruction of men, according to the first principles of the world,––and not according to Christ:

²⁰ If ye have died, together with Christ, from the first principles of the world, why, as though alive in the world, are ye submitting to decrees,–– ²¹ Do not handle, nor taste, nor touch; –– ²² Which things are all for decay in the using up; ––according to the commandments and teachings of men? ²³ The which things, indeed, though they have, an appearance, of wisdom, in self–devised religious observance, and lowliness of mind, [and] ill–treatment of body, are, in no honourable way, unto a satisfying of the flesh.

¹⁸ Knowing that, Not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, have ye been redeemed from your unmeaning behaviour paternally handed down,