◄ Mark 7:9 ►
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Good News Translation
And Jesus continued, "You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.

New Revised Standard Version
Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

Contemporary English Version
You are good at rejecting God's commands so that you can follow your own teachings!

New American Bible
He went on to say, “How well you have set aside the commandment of God in order to uphold your tradition!

Douay-Rheims Bible
And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

Full.

2 Kings 16:10-16 And king Achaz went to Damascus to meet Theglathphalasar, king of the Assyrians, and when he had seen the altar of Damascus, king Achaz sent to Urias, the priest, a pattern of it, and its likeness, according to all the work thereof. . . .

Isaiah 24:5 And the earth is infected by the inhabitants thereof: because they have transgressed the laws, they have changed the ordinance, they have broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 29:13 And the Lord said: Forasmuch as this people draw near me with their mouth, and with their lips glorify me, but their heart is far from me, and they have feared me with the commandment and doctrines of men:

Jeremiah 44:16,17 As for the word which thou hast spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not hearken to thee: . . .

Daniel 7:25 And he shall speak words against the High One, and shall crush the saints of the most High: and he shall think himself able to change times and laws, and they shall be delivered into his hand until a time, and times, and half a time.

Daniel 11:36 And the king shall do according to his will, and he shall be lifted up, and shall magnify himself against every god: and he shall speak great things against the God of gods, and shall prosper, till the wrath be accomplished. For the determination is made.

Matthew 15:3-6 But he answering, said to them: Why do you also transgress the commandment of God for your tradition? For God said: . . .

2 Thessalonians 2:4 Who opposeth and is lifted up above all that is called God or that is worshipped, so that he sitteth in the temple of God, shewing himself as if he were God.

reject.

Mark 7:13 Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do.

Psalm 119:126 It is time, O Lord, to do: they have dissipated thy law.

Romans 3:31 Do we then, destroy the law through faith? God forbid! But we establish the law.

Galatians 2:21 I cast not away the grace of God. For if justice be by the law, then Christ died in vain.

Context
Tradition and Worship
…8For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these. 9And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. 10For Moses said: Honour thy father and thy mother. And He that shall curse father or mother, dying let him die.…
Cross References
Mark 7:3
For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.

Mark 7:5
And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

2 Corinthians 11:4
For if he that cometh preacheth another Christ, whom we have not preached; or if you receive another Spirit, whom you have not received; or another gospel, which you have not received: you might well bear with him.

Galatians 1:14
And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Mark 7:8
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