he is not to honor his father with it. Thus you have made the word of God of no effect for the sake of your tradition.

thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do."

But he said to them, "My mother and my brothers are those who hear the word of God and do it."

But he said, "Blessed rather are those who hear the word of God and keep it!"

But prove yourselves doers of the word, and not merely hearers who deceive themselves. For if anyone is a hearer of the word and not a doer, he is like a man who looks at his natural face in a mirror;

First of all you must understand this, that no prophecy of scripture is a matter of one's own interpretation, for no prophecy was ever made by the act of human will, but men moved by the Holy Spirit spoke from God.

Much in every way! To begin with, they are entrusted with the oracles of God.

For whatever was written in former days was written for our instruction, that through perseverance and the encouragement of the scriptures we might have hope.

For the scripture says, "You shall not muzzle an ox while it is treading out the grain," and, "The laborer deserves his wages."

He writes the same way in all his letters, speaking in them of these matters. His letters contain some things that are hard to understand, which ignorant and unstable people distort, as they do the other Scriptures, to their own destruction.

If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

and how from childhood you have known the sacred writings which are able to make you wise for salvation through faith in Christ Jesus.

For we are not, like so many, peddling the word of God; but as men of sincerity, as from God, in the sight of God we speak in Christ.

But we have renounced secret and shameful ways; we do not use deception, nor do we distort the word of God. On the contrary, by setting forth the truth plainly we commend ourselves to every man's conscience in the sight of God.

Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a workman who does not need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth.

and if anyone takes away from the words of the book of this prophecy, God will take away his share from the tree of life and from the holy city, which are described in this book.