6 he must not honor his father at all.’+ And so YOU have made the word of God invalid because of YOUR tradition.+

11 Now the apostles and the brothers that were in Ju·deʹa heard that people of the nations+ had also received the word of God.

13 Indeed, that is why we also thank God incessantly,+ because when YOU received God’s word,+ which YOU heard from us, YOU accepted it, not as the word of men,+ but, just as it truthfully is, as the word of God, which* is also at work in YOU believers.+

15 For this is what we tell YOU by Jehovah’s* word,+ that we the living who survive to the presence of the Lord*+ shall in no way precede those who have fallen asleep [in death];