Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem and said, "Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands before they eat."  He answered them, "And why do you break the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?  For God said, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'Whoever speaks evil of father or mother must surely die.'  But you say that whoever tells father or mother, 'Whatever support you might have had from me is given to God,' then that person need not honor the father.  So, for the sake of your tradition, you make void the word of God.  You hypocrites!  Isaiah prophesied rightly about you when he said:  'This people honors me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me; in vain do they worship me, teaching human precepts as doctrines.'"

Are there ways in which, still today, we teach "human precepts as doctrine?"  Ways in which we supplant God's word with our own tradition?  Certainly the third commandment to rest from labors on the Sabbath and to remember our salvation is met with widespread disobedience across many cultures.  We say "as long as it is not paid labor done for our employer (when not absolutely required) then labor is fine."  Or we abuse the command to "rest and remember" by using the day for whatever we see fit, to waste it with a thousand amusements or distractions.  Thus we introduce disorder into the natural rhythm of our work week.

The fifth commandment is abused in the case of abortion which is widely accepted not as murder but a simple exercise of a person's individual free will, as though the person's choice in itself, regardless of what is chosen, is moral and good.

The sixth commandment is widely replaced by cultural tradition which suggests that couples live together before marriage to ensure compatibility.

The ninth commandment prohibiting us from lusting after another is held in complete disdain.  It is replaced by man's precept which states "you may look (lust) as long as you don't touch."