Matthew 15:2-9
15:2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their
hands when they eat.”
15:3 He answered them,
“And why do you disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
15:4 For God said,
‘
Honor your father and mother’
and ‘
Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
15:5 But you say, ‘If someone tells his father or mother, “Whatever help you would have received from me is given to God,”
15:6 he does not need to honor his father.’
You have nullified the word of God on account of your tradition.
15:7 Hypocrites! Isaiah prophesied correctly about you when he said,
15:8 ‘This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me,
15:9 and they worship me in vain,
teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’”
Exodus 18:19-20
18:19 Now listen to me,
I will give you advice, and may God be with you: You be a representative for the people to God,
and you bring
their disputes
to God;
18:20 warn
them of the statutes and the laws, and make known to them the way in which they must walk
and the work they must do.
Exodus 18:23
18:23 If you do this thing, and God so commands you,
then you will be able
to endure,
and all these people
will be able to go
home
satisfied.”
Deuteronomy 4:5
4:5 Look! I have taught you statutes and ordinances just as the
Lord my God told me to do, so that you might carry them out in
the land you are about to enter and possess.
Deuteronomy 5:27
5:27 You go near so that you can hear everything the
Lord our God is saying and then you can tell us whatever he
says to you; then we will pay attention and do it.”
Deuteronomy 17:9-12
17:9 You will go to the Levitical priests and the judge in office in those days and seek a solution; they will render a verdict.
17:10 You must then do as they have determined at that place the
Lord chooses. Be careful to do just as you are taught.
17:11 You must do what you are instructed, and the verdict they pronounce to you, without fail. Do not deviate right or left from what they tell you.
17:12 The person who pays no attention
to the priest currently serving the
Lord your God there, or to the verdict – that person must die, so that you may purge evil from Israel.
Deuteronomy 17:2
17:2 Suppose a man or woman is discovered among you – in one of your villages
that the
Lord your God is giving you – who sins before the Lord your God
and breaks his covenant
Deuteronomy 30:12
30:12 It is not in heaven, as though one must say, “Who will go up to heaven to get it for us and proclaim it to us so we may obey it?”
Acts 5:29
5:29 But Peter and the apostles replied,
“We must obey
God rather than people.
Romans 13:1
Submission to Civil Government
13:1 Let every person be subject to the governing authorities. For there is no authority except by God’s appointment, and the authorities that exist have been instituted by God.