Jeremiah 6:16
16 Thus says the Lord:“Stand by the roads, and look,
and ask for athe ancient paths,
where the good way is; and walk in it,
band find rest for your souls.
But they said, ‘We will not walk in it.’
Mark 7:7-13
7in vain do they worship me,teaching as cdoctrines the commandments of men.’
8You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men.”
9And he said to them, “You have a fine way of drejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition! 10For Moses said, e‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, f‘Whoever reviles father or mother must surely die.’ 11But you say, ‘If a man tells his father or his mother, “Whatever you would have gained from me is Corban”’ (that is, given to God) ▼
▼Or an offering
— 12then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother, 13thus hmaking void the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And many such things you do.” Romans 4:11-12
11 iHe received the sign of circumcision as a seal of the righteousness that he had by faith while he was still uncircumcised. The purpose was jto make him the father of all who believe without being circumcised, so that righteousness would be counted to them as well, 12and to make him the father of the circumcised who are not merely circumcised but who also walk in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.Hebrews 11:1-2
By Faith
1Now faith is the assurance of things hoped for, the conviction of kthings not seen. 2For by it the people of old received their commendation.Hebrews 11:39
39And all these, lthough commended through their faith, mdid not receive what was promised,
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