Exodus 18:19-20
19Now obey my voice; I will give you advice, and God be with you! You shall arepresent the people before God and bbring their cases to God, 20and you shall warn them about the statutes and the laws, and make them know cthe way in which they must walk and dwhat they must do.Exodus 18:23
23If you do this, God will direct you, you will be eable to endure, and all this people also will go to their place in peace.”Deuteronomy 4:5
5See, I have taught you statutes and rules, as the Lord my God commanded me, that you should do them in the land that you are entering to take possession of it.Deuteronomy 5:27
27Go near and hear all that the Lord our God will say, and fspeak to us all that the Lord our God will speak to you, and we will hear and do it.’Deuteronomy 17:9-12
9 gAnd you shall come to the Levitical priests and to the judge who is in office in those days, and you shall consult them, and hthey shall declare to you the decision. 10Then you shall do according to what they declare to you from that place that the Lord will choose. And you shall be careful to do according to all that they direct you. 11According to the instructions that they give you, and according to the decision which they pronounce to you, you shall do. You shall not turn aside from the verdict that they declare to you, either to the right hand or to the left. 12The man who iacts presumptuously by not obeying the priest jwho stands to minister there before the Lord your God, or the judge, that man shall die. So kyou shall purge the evil from Israel.2 Chronicles 30:12
12The hand of God was also on Judah to give them one heart to do what the king and the princes commanded lby the word of the Lord.Matthew 15:2-9
2 m“Why do your disciples break nthe tradition of the elders? oFor they do not wash their hands when they eat.” 3He answered them, “And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition? 4For God commanded, p‘Honor your father and your mother,’ and, q‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 5But 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
6he need not honor his father.’ So for the sake of your tradition you have smade void the word ▼▼Some manuscripts law
of God. 7 uYou hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, when he said: 8 v“‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
9in vain do they worship me,
teaching as wdoctrines the commandments of men.’”
Acts 5:29
29But Peter and the apostles answered, x“We must obey God rather than men.
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