Mark 7:8

Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

See under the preceding verses. The universal experience of the human race throughout the centuries has been that human traditions, when received into the worship, tend ultimately to deny and contradict God's word. An excellent example of this is infant baptism, a human tradition having no support whatever in the New Testament, but which has been widely accepted and made the excuse for man's refusal to "repent and have themselves baptized" as God commanded.