Bible Verses About Traditions
Ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community
These are the Bible verses most often cited for traditions, ranked by the OpenBible.info topical community across 3,763 votes, led by 2 Thessalonians 2:15. Each passage links to its verse page or the interactive map; scripture is the King James Version.
Top verses about Traditions
2 Thessalonians 2:15338 votes
Therefore, brethren, stand fast, and hold the traditions which ye have been taught, whether by word, or our epistle.
Colossians 2:8312 votes
Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.
Matthew 15:3296 votes
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
1 Corinthians 11:2168 votes
Now I praise you, brethren, that ye remember me in all things, and keep the ordinances, as I delivered them to you.
Mark 7:3-9160 votes
For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
Matthew 15:6149 votes
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.
1 Corinthians 11:1-2106 votes
Be ye followers of me, even as I also am of Christ.
2 Thessalonians 3:699 votes
Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which he received of us.
2 Timothy 4:2-493 votes
Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.
2 Thessalonians 2:14-1583 votes
Whereunto he called you by our gospel, to the obtaining of the glory of our Lord Jesus Christ.
1 Timothy 4:773 votes
But refuse profane and old wives’ fables, and exercise thyself rather unto godliness.
Jeremiah 10:1-566 votes
Hear ye the word which the Lord speaketh unto you, O house of Israel:
Matthew 15:3-2063 votes
But he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?
2 Timothy 2:263 votes
And the things that thou hast heard of me among many witnesses, the same commit thou to faithful men, who shall be able to teach others also.
1 Timothy 1:460 votes
Neither give heed to fables and endless genealogies, which minister questions, rather than godly edifying which is in faith: so do.
Mark 7:1-3747 votes
Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem.
Matthew 15:2-646 votes
Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.
John 6:50-7146 votes
This is the bread which cometh down from heaven, that a man may eat thereof, and not die.
Acts 17:1144 votes
These were more noble than those in Thessalonica, in that they received the word with all readiness of mind, and searched the scriptures daily, whether those things were so.
2 Timothy 3:1644 votes
All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness:
Revelation 22:18-1944 votes
For I testify unto every man that heareth the words of the prophecy of this book, If any man shall add unto these things, God shall add unto him the plagues that are written in this book:
Deuteronomy 5:32-3343 votes
Ye shall observe to do therefore as the Lord your God hath commanded you: ye shall not turn aside to the right hand or to the left.
Luke 6:1-1142 votes
And it came to pass on the second sabbath after the first, that he went through the corn fields; and his disciples plucked the ears of corn, and did eat, rubbing them in their hands.
Galatians 1:1441 votes
And profited in the Jews’ religion above many my equals in mine own nation, being more exceedingly zealous of the traditions of my fathers.
Romans 14:136 votes
Him that is weak in the faith receive ye, but not to doubtful disputations.
What does the Bible say about traditions?
Readers most often cite 2 Thessalonians 2:15 on the subject of traditions. Across 3,763 votes, 25 passages are commonly cited for this topic, including Colossians 2:8, Matthew 15:3, 1 Corinthians 11:2. This page lists all 25 in ranked order, quoted in the King James Version, with each linked to its cross-references.