Mark 7:3

American Standard Version (1901)

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders;

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  • Mark 7:13 : 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 and I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of mine own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Take heed lest there shall be any one that maketh spoil of you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ:
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 Handle not, nor taste, nor touch 22 (all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things have indeed a show of wisdom in will-worship, and humility, and severity to the body; [but are] not of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that ye were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from your vain manner of life handed down from your fathers;
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread. 3 And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death. 5 But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ; 6 he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:5 : 5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men. 8 Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

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  • Mark 7:4-9
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    89%

    4and [when they come] from the marketplace, except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other things there are, which they have received to hold, washings of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels .)

    5And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with defiled hands?

    6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

    7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

    8Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

    9And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

  • Mark 7:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1And there are gathered together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, who had come from Jerusalem,

    2and had seen that some of his disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen, hands.

  • Matt 15:1-3
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    1Then there come to Jesus from Jerusalem Pharisees and scribes, saying,

    2Why do thy disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? for they wash not their hands when they eat bread.

    3And he answered and said unto them, Why do ye also transgress the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Matt 15:20
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    20these are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashen hands defileth not the man.

  • Luke 11:37-39
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    37Now as he spake, a Pharisee asketh him to dine with him: and he went in, and sat down to meat.

    38And when the Pharisee saw it, he marvelled that he had not first bathed himself before dinner.

    39And the Lord said unto him, Now ye the Pharisees cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter; but your inward part is full of extortion and wickedness.

  • Matt 23:25-26
    2 verses
    73%

    25Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess.

    26Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also.

  • Mark 7:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him;

    19because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and goeth out into the draught? [This he said], making all meats clean.

  • Mark 7:12-13
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    71%

    12ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

    13making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

  • Lev 22:6
    71%

    6the soul that toucheth any such shall be unclean until the even, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his flesh in water.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2But certain of the Pharisees said, Why do ye that which it is not lawful to do on the sabbath day?

  • Matt 23:3
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    3all things therefore whatsoever they bid you, [these] do and observe: but do not ye after their works; for they say, and do not.

  • Mark 2:24
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    24And the Pharisees said unto him, Behold, why do they on the sabbath day that which is not lawful?

  • Luke 7:30
    70%

    30But the Pharisees and the lawyers rejected for themselves the counsel of God, being not baptized of him.

  • Luke 11:41-42
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    41But give for alms those things which are within; and behold, all things are clean unto you.

    42But woe unto you Pharisees! for ye tithe mint and rue and every herb, and pass over justice and the love of God: but these ought ye to have done, and not to leave the other undone.

  • Matt 15:9-12
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    9But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

    10And he called to him the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand:

    11Not that which entereth into the mouth defileth the man; but that which proceedeth out of the mouth, this defileth the man.

    12Then came the disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?

  • Matt 12:2
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    2But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.

  • Luke 7:36
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    36And one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him. And he entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat down to meat.

  • Mark 7:15
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    15there is nothing from without the man, that going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out of the man are those that defile the man.

  • Lev 15:11
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    11And whomsoever he that hath the issue toucheth, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the even.

  • Heb 9:10
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    10[ being] only (with meats and drinks and divers washings) carnal ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

  • Exod 30:19
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    19And Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet thereat:

  • Luke 5:33
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    33And they said unto him, The disciples of John fast often, and make supplications; likewise also the [disciples] of the Pharisees; but thine eat and drink.

  • Exod 40:31
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    31And Moses and Aaron and his sons washed their hands and their feet thereat;

  • Exod 30:21
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    21So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they die not: and it shall be a statute for ever to them, even to him and to his seed throughout their generations.

  • Luke 6:7
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    7And the scribes and the Pharisees watched him, whether he would heal on the sabbath; that they might find how to accuse him.

  • Matt 23:5
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    5But all their works they do to be seen of men: for they make broad their phylacteries, and enlarge the borders [of their garments] ,

  • Matt 15:6
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    6he shall not honor his father. And ye have made void the word of God because of your tradition.

  • Luke 14:1
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    1And it came to pass, when he went into the house of one of the rulers of the Pharisees on a sabbath to eat bread, that they were watching him.

  • Lev 17:16
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    16But if he wash them not, nor bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.

  • Matt 9:11
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    11And when the Pharisees saw it, they said unto his disciples, Why eateth your Teacher with the publicans and sinners?

  • Mark 3:6
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    6And the Pharisees went out, and straightway with the Herodians took counsel against him, how they might destroy him.

  • Matt 16:12
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    12Then understood they that he bade them not beware of the leaven of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Lev 7:19
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    19And the flesh that toucheth any unclean thing shall not be eaten; it shall be burnt with fire. And as for the flesh, every one that is clean shall eat thereof: