Bible Verses About Tradition: Not authoritative

But he answered and said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commandement of God by your tradition?

For God hath commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and he that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.

But ye say, Whosoeuer shall say to father or mother, By the gift that is offered by me, thou maiest haue profite,

Though hee honour not his father, or his mother, shalbe free: thus haue ye made the commandement of God of no aucthoritie by your tradition.

O hypocrites, Esaias prophecied well of you, saying,

This people draweth neere vnto me with their mouth, and honoureth me with the lips, but their heart is farre off from me.

But in vaine they worship me, teaching for doctrines, mens precepts.

Then hee called the multitude vnto him, and said to them, Heare and vnderstand.

That which goeth into the mouth, defileth not the man, but that which commeth out of the mouth, that defileth the man.

Then came his disciples, and saide vnto him, Perceiuest thou not, that the Pharises are offended in hearing this saying?

But hee answered and saide, Euery plant which mine heauenly Father hath not planted, shalbe rooted vp.

Let them alone, they be the blinde leaders of the blinde: and if the blinde leade ye blinde, both shall fall into the ditche.

Then answered Peter, and said to him, Declare vnto vs this parable.

Then said Iesus, Are ye yet without vnderstanding?

Perceiue ye not yet, that whatsoeuer entreth into the mouth, goeth into the bellie, and is cast out into the draught?

But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.

For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.

These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.

Neither that they giue heede to fables and genealogies which are endles, which breede questions rather then godly edifying which is by fayth.

But cast away prophane, and olde wiues fables, and exercise thy selfe vnto godlinesse.