Matthew 23:16-18
23:16 “Woe to you, blind guides, who say, ‘Whoever swears by the temple is bound by nothing. But whoever swears by the gold of the temple is bound by the oath.’
23:17 Blind fools! Which is greater, the gold or the temple that makes the gold sacred?
23:18 And, ‘Whoever swears by the altar is bound by nothing. But if anyone swears by the gift on it he is bound by the oath.’
Amos 7:15-17
7:15 Then the
Lord took me from tending
flocks and gave me this commission,
‘Go! Prophesy to my people Israel!’
7:16 So now listen to the
Lord’s message! You say, ‘Don’t prophesy against Israel! Don’t preach
against the family of Isaac!’
7:17 “Therefore this is what the Lord says:
‘Your wife will become a prostitute in the streets
and your sons and daughters will die violently.
Your land will be given to others
and you will die in a foreign land.
Israel will certainly be carried into exile away from its land.’”
Mark 7:10-13
7:10 For Moses said, ‘
Honor your father and your mother,’
and, ‘
Whoever insults his father or mother must be put to death.’
7:11 But you say that if anyone tells his father or mother, ‘Whatever help you would have received from me is
corban’
(that is, a gift for God),
7:12 then you no longer permit him to do anything for his father or mother.
7:13 Thus you nullify
the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
Acts 4:19
4:19 But Peter and John replied,
“Whether it is right before God to obey
you rather than God, you decide,
Acts 5:29
5:29 But Peter and the apostles replied,
“We must obey
God rather than people.