1Sa 2:17, 24, 30, Isa 9:16, Jer 18:15, 23:11-15, Mal 2:9, Mat 15:2-5 | ESV | STEP | Thus the sin of the young men was very great in the sight of the Lord , for the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt .

1 Samuel 2:17

17 Thus the sin of the young men was very great ^ain the sight of the Lord, ^bfor the men treated the offering of the Lord with contempt.

1 Samuel 2:24

24 No, my sons; it is no good report that I hear the people of the Lord spreading abroad.

1 Samuel 2:30

30 Therefore the Lord, the God of Israel, declares: ^c‘I promised that your house and the house of your father should go in and out before me forever,’ ^dbut now the Lord declares: ‘Far be it from me, for those who honor me I will honor, and those who despise me shall be lightly esteemed.

Isaiah 9:16

16 for those who guide this people have been leading them astray,
and those who are guided by them are swallowed up.

Jeremiah 18:15

15 ^eBut my people have forgotten me;
they make offerings to ^ffalse gods;
they made them stumble in their ways,
^gin the ancient roads,
and to walk into side roads,
^hnot the highway,

Jeremiah 23:11-15

11 ⁱ“Both prophet and priest are ungodly;
even ^jin my house I have found their evil,

declares the Lord.
12 ^kTherefore their way shall be to them
like slippery paths ^lin the darkness,
into which they shall be driven and fall,
for I will bring disaster upon them
^min the year of their punishment,

declares the Lord.
13 In the prophets of ⁿSamaria
^oI saw an unsavory thing:
^pthey prophesied by Baal
^qand led my people Israel astray.
14 But in the prophets of Jerusalem
I have seen a horrible thing:
^rthey commit adultery and walk in lies;
^sthey strengthen the hands of evildoers,
so that no one turns from his evil;
^tall of them have become like Sodom to me,
^uand its inhabitants like Gomorrah.”
15 Therefore thus says the Lord of hosts concerning the prophets:
^v“Behold, I will feed them with bitter food
^wand give them ^xpoisoned water to drink,
for from the prophets of Jerusalem
ungodliness has gone out into all the land.”

Malachi 2:9

9 and so ^yI make you despised and abased before all the people, inasmuch as you do not keep my ways but ^zshow partiality in your instruction.”

Matthew 15:2-5

2 ^aa“Why do your disciples break ^abthe tradition of the elders? ^acFor they do not wash their hands when they eat.” 3 He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, ^ad‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, ^ae‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5 But you say, ‘If anyone tells his father or his mother, “What you would have gained from me is given to God,” ^{▼▼Or is an offering}