This Bible study is based on Bible Readings for the Home, a topical study presented in a question-and-answer format. The scripture references come from both the KJV and NIV translations. Additionally, we’ve provided links to each verse from the World English Bible for a more modern interpretation. We encourage you to follow along in your own Bible, reflect on the guided questions, and highlight the verses that speak to you. Feel free to share this study with your friends and family. Enjoy the journey!
1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,
2 “Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”
3 He answered them,
“Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?
4
For God commanded, ‘Honor your father and your mother,’
and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’
5
But you say, ‘Whoever may tell his father or his mother, “Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God,”
6
he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
7
You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,
8
‘These people draw near to me with their mouth,
and honor me with their lips;
but their heart is far from me.
9
And in vain do they worship me,
teaching as doctrine rules made by men.’”
21
“You have heard that it was said to the ancient ones, ‘You shall not murder;’
and ‘Whoever murders will be in danger of the judgment.’
22
But I tell you, that everyone who is angry with his brother without a cause
will be in danger of the judgment; and whoever says to his brother, ‘Raca!’
will be in danger of the council; and whoever says, ‘You fool!’ will be in danger of the fire of Gehenna.
27
“You have heard that it was said,
‘You shall not commit adultery;’
28
but I tell you that everyone who gazes at a woman to lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart.
18
For most certainly, I tell you, until heaven and earth pass away, not even one smallest letter
or one tiny pen stroke
shall in any way pass away from the law, until all things are accomplished.
3 For what the law couldn’t do, in that it was weak through the flesh, God did, sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and for sin, he condemned sin in the flesh;
4 that the ordinance of the law might be fulfilled in us, who walk not after the flesh, but after the Spirit.
