Matthew 15:2
2 a“Why do your disciples break bthe tradition of the elders? cFor they do not wash their hands when they eat.”Mark 2:16-18
16And dthe scribes of ▼▼Some manuscripts and
the Pharisees, when they saw that he was eating with sinners and tax collectors, said to his disciples, f“Why does he eat ▼▼Some manuscripts add and drink
with tax collectors and sinners?” 17And when Jesus heard it, he said to them, “Those who are well have no need of a physician, but those who are sick. hI came not to call the righteous, ibut sinners.” A Question About Fasting
18Now jJohn’s disciples and the Pharisees were fasting. And people came and said to him, k“Why do John’s disciples and lthe disciples of the Pharisees fast, but your disciples do not fast?”Acts 21:21
21and they have been told about you that you teach all mthe Jews who are among the Gentiles to forsake Moses, ntelling them onot to circumcise their children or pwalk according to qour customs.Acts 21:24
24take these men and rpurify yourself along with them and pay their expenses, sso that they may shave their heads. Thus all will know that there is nothing in what they have been told about you, but that you yourself also live in observance of the law.Romans 4:12
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.2 Thessalonians 3:6
Warning Against Idleness
6Now we command you, brothers, tin the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, uthat you keep away from any vbrother wwho is walking in idleness and not in accord with the tradition that you received from us.2 Thessalonians 3:11
11For we hear that some among you xwalk in idleness, not busy at work, but ybusybodies.
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