Mark 7:8

American Standard Version (1901)

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

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  • Mark 7:3-4 : 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands diligently, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders; 4 and [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 .)
  • Isa 1:12 : 12 When ye come to appear before me, who hath required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

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  • Mark 7:9-14
    6 verses
    90%

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

    10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

    11but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God] ;

    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.

    14And he called to him the multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and understand:

  • Mark 7:2-7
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    86%

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

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

    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.

  • Matt 15:2-11
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    80%

    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?

    4For God said, Honor thy father and thy mother: and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death.

    5But ye say, whosoever shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is given [to God] ;

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

    7Ye hypocrites, well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

    8This people honoreth me with their lips; But their heart is far from me.

    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.

  • Col 2:22-23
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    22(all which things are to perish with the using), after the precepts and doctrines of men?

    23Which 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.

  • Matt 15:20
    73%

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

  • Titus 1:14
    72%

    14not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • Matt 23:23-26
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    23Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye tithe mint and anise and cummin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law, justice, and mercy, and faith: but these ye ought to have done, and not to have left the other undone.

    24Ye blind guides, that strain out the gnat, and swallow the camel!

    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.

  • Luke 11:39
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    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 23:3-4
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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.

    4Yea, they bind heavy burdens and grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with their finger.

  • Luke 11:41-42
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    69%

    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.

  • Ezek 22:8
    69%

    8Thou hast despised my holy things, and hast profaned my sabbaths.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8But ye are turned aside out of the way; ye have caused many to stumble in the law; ye have corrupted the covenant of Levi, saith Jehovah of hosts.

  • Mark 7:18-20
    3 verses
    69%

    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.

    20And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
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    6Now we command you, brethren, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that ye withdraw yourselves from every brother that walketh disorderly, and not after the tradition which they received of us.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • Ezek 44:8
    68%

    8And ye have not kept the charge of my holy things; but ye have set keepers of my charge in my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Heb 7:18
    67%

    18For there is a disannulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness

  • Luke 7:30
    67%

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

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither cast your pearls before the swine, lest haply they trample them under their feet, and turn and rend you.

  • 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.

  • Acts 7:51
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    51Ye stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, ye do always resist the Holy Spirit: as your fathers did, so do ye.

  • John 7:22
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    22Moses hath given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers); and on the sabbath ye circumcise a man.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22And ye shall defile the overlaying of thy graven images of silver, and the plating of thy molten images of gold: thou shalt cast them away as an unclean thing; thou shalt say unto it, Get thee hence.