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Mat 23:3 — All therefore whatsoever they bid you observe, [that] observe and do; but do not ye after their works: for they say, and do not.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

whatsoever		Mat 15:2-9; Exd 18:19,20,23; Deu 4:5; Deu 5:27; Deu 17:9-12; 2Ch 30:12; Act 5:29,; Rom 13:1
for		Mat 21:30; Psa 50:16-20; Rom 2:19-24; 2Ti 3:5; Tts 1:16

Correlating Passages

whatsoever

	Mat 15:2	Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
	Mat 15:3	But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
	Mat 15:4	For God commanded, saying, Honour thy father and mother: and, He that curseth father or mother, let him die the death.
	Mat 15:5	But ye say, Whosoever shall say to [his] father or [his] mother, [It is] a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me;
	Mat 15:6	And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.
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	Exd 18:19	Hearken now unto my voice, I will give thee counsel, and God shall be with thee: Be thou for the people to God-ward, that thou mayest bring the causes unto God:
	Exd 18:20	And thou shalt teach them ordinances and laws, and shalt shew them the way wherein they must walk, and the work that they must do.
	Exd 18:23	If thou shalt do this thing, and God command thee [so], then thou shalt be able to endure, and all this people shall also go to their place in peace.
	Deu 4:5	Behold, I have taught you statutes and judgments, even as the LORD my God commanded me, that ye should do so in the land whither ye go to possess it.
	Deu 5:27	Go thou near, and hear all that the LORD our God shall say: and speak thou unto us all that the LORD our God shall speak unto thee; and we will hear [it], and do [it].
	Deu 17:9	And thou shalt come unto the priests the Levites, and unto the judge that shall be in those days, and enquire; and they shall shew thee the sentence of judgment:
	Deu 17:10	And thou shalt do according to the sentence, which they of that place which the LORD shall choose shall shew thee; and thou shalt observe to do according to all that they inform thee:
	Deu 17:11	According to the sentence of the law which they shall teach thee, and according to the judgment which they shall tell thee, thou shalt do: thou shalt not decline from the sentence which they shall shew thee, [to] the right hand, nor [to] the left.
	Deu 17:12	And the man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest that standeth to minister there before the LORD thy God, or unto the judge, even that man shall die: and thou shalt put away the evil from Israel.
	2Ch 30:12	Also in Judah the hand of God was to give them one heart to do the commandment of the king and of the princes, by the word of the LORD.
	Act 5:29	Then Peter and the [other] apostles answered and said, We ought to obey God rather than men.
	Rom 13:1	Let every soul be subject unto the higher powers. For there is no power but of God: the powers that be are ordained of God.

for

	Mat 21:30	And he came to the second, and said likewise. And he answered and said, I [go], sir: and went not.
	Psa 50:16	But unto the wicked God saith, What hast thou to do to declare my statutes, or [that] thou shouldest take my covenant in thy mouth?
	Psa 50:17	Seeing thou hatest instruction, and castest my words behind thee.
	Psa 50:18	When thou sawest a thief, then thou consentedst with him, and hast been partaker with adulterers.
	Psa 50:19	Thou givest thy mouth to evil, and thy tongue frameth deceit.
	Psa 50:20	Thou sittest [and] speakest against thy brother; thou slanderest thine own mother's son.
	Rom 2:19	And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,
	Rom 2:20	An instructor of the foolish, a teacher of babes, which hast the form of knowledge and of the truth in the law.
	Rom 2:21	Thou therefore which teachest another, teachest thou not thyself? thou that preachest a man should not steal, dost thou steal?
	Rom 2:22	Thou that sayest a man should not commit adultery, dost thou commit adultery? thou that abhorrest idols, dost thou commit sacrilege?
	Rom 2:23	Thou that makest thy boast of the law, through breaking the law dishonourest thou God?
	Rom 2:24	For the name of God is blasphemed among the Gentiles through you, as it is written.
	2Ti 3:5	Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
	Tts 1:16	They profess that they know God; but in works they deny [him], being abominable, and disobedient, and unto every good work reprobate.

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Scott, Thomas. "Matthew 23:3," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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