9But in vain they do worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
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Wherefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips do honour me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men.
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.
Let no man beguile you of your reward in a voluntary humility and worshipping of angels, intruding into those things which he hath not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind, …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-9)Evil manners, we say, beget good laws. The intemperate heat of the Jewish teachers for the support of their hierarchy, occasioned many excellent discourses of our Saviour’s for the settling of the truth, as here. I. Here, is the cavil of the scribes and Pharisees at Christ’s disciples, for eating with unwashen hands . The scribes and Pharisees were the great men of the Jewish church, men whose gai…
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