Since I’ve gone to all the trouble of recording everything I could find in Scripture of the importance of WRITTEN records; I expect that you have a list of things from Scripture that shows how important TRADITION is in men’s salvation; right?
Whoever receives you receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. (Matt. 10:40)
If he refuses to listen to them, tell the church. If he refuses to listen even to the church, then treat him as you would a Gentile or a tax collector. Amen, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven. (Matt. 18:17,18)
Then Jesus approached and said to them, “All power in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Go, therefore, and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the holy Spirit, teaching them to observe all that I have commanded you. And behold, I am with you always, until the end of the age.” (Matt. 28:1-20)
Whoever listens to you listens to me. Whoever rejects you rejects me. And whoever rejects me rejects the one who sent me. (Lk. 10:16)
It is the decision of the holy Spirit and of us not to place on you any burden beyond these necessities, namely, to abstain from meat sacrificed to idols, from blood, from meats of strangled animals, and from unlawful marriage. If you keep free of these, you will be doing what is right. Farewell. (Acts 15: 28-29)
Amen, amen, I say to you, whoever receives the one I send receives me, and whoever receives me receives the one who sent me. (Jn 13:20)
As you sent me into the world, so I sent them into the world. (Jn. 17:18)
For “everyone who calls on the name of the Lord will be saved.” But how can they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how can they believe in him of whom they have not heard? And how can they hear without someone to preach? And how can people preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who bring [the] good news!” (Rom. 10:13-15)
I praise you because you remember me in everything and hold fast to the traditions, just as I handed them on to you. (1 Cor. 11:2)
And what you heard from me through many witnesses entrust to faithful people who will have the ability to teach others as well. (2 Tim. 2:2)
Say these things. Exhort and correct with all authority. Let no one look down on you. (Titus 2:15)
Remember your leaders who spoke the word of God to you.… Consider the outcome of their way of life and imitate their faith. Obey your leaders and defer to them, for they keep watch over you and will have to give an account, that they may fulfill their task with joy and not with sorrow, for that would be of no advantage to you. (Heb. 13:7,17)
Likewise, you younger members, be subject to the presbyters. (1 Peter 5:5)
We belong to God, and anyone who knows God listens to us, while anyone who does not belong to God refuses to hear us. This is how we know the spirit of truth and the spirit of deceit. (1 Jn. 4:6)