Matthew 15:13-14

What Defiles a Person

13 He answered, t "Every plant that my heavenly Father has not planted u will be rooted up. 14 Let them alone; v they are blind guides. 1 And w if the blind lead the blind, both will fall into a pit."

  1. Cross References
    Isaiah 60:21
    Your people shall all be righteous; they shall possess the land forever, the branch of my planting, the work of my hands, that I might be glorified.
    Isaiah 61:3
    To grant to those who mourn in Zion - to give them a beautiful headdress instead of ashes, the oil of gladness instead of mourning, the garment of praise instead of a faint spirit; that they may be called oaks of righteousness, the planting of the Lord, that he may be glorified.
    John 15:1 - 2
    I am the true vine, and my Father is the vinedresser.
    1 Corinthians 3:9
    For we are God's fellow workers. You are God's field, God's building.
  2. Cross References
    Jude 1:12
    These are hidden reefs at your love feasts, as they feast with you without fear, shepherds feeding themselves; waterless clouds, swept along by winds; fruitless trees in late autumn, twice dead, uprooted.
  3. Cross References
    Matthew 23:16
    "Woe to you, blind guides, who say, 'If anyone swears by the temple, it is nothing, but if anyone swears by the gold of the temple, he is bound by his oath.'
    Matthew 23:24
    You blind guides, straining out a gnat and swallowing a camel!
    Isaiah 56:10
    His watchmen are blind; they are all without knowledge; they are all silent dogs; they cannot bark, dreaming, lying down, loving to slumber.
    Malachi 2:8
    But you have turned aside from the way. You have caused many to stumble by your instruction. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the Lord of hosts.
  4. Cross References
    Luke 6:39
    He also told them a parable: "Can a blind man lead a blind man? Will they not both fall into a pit?
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