Mark 7:8

Bible in Basic English (1941)

For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

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Referenced Verses

  • Mark 7:3-4 : 3 Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them: 4 And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.
  • Isa 1:12 : 12 At whose request do you come before me, making my house unclean with your feet?

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  • Mark 7:9-14
    6 verses
    90%

    9And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

    10For Moses said, Give honour to your father and mother, and, He who says evil of father or mother, let him have the punishment of death:

    11But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is Corban, that is to say, Given to God,

    12You no longer let him do anything for his father or his mother;

    13Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

    14And turning to the people again, he said to them, Give ear to me all of you, and let my words be clear to you:

  • Mark 7:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

    2And had seen that some of his disciples took their bread with unclean, that is, unwashed, hands.

    3Now the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not take food without washing their hands with care, keeping the old rule which has been handed down to them:

    4And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keep--washings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

    5And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

    6And he said, Well did Isaiah say of you, you false ones: These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

    7But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

  • Matt 15:2-11
    10 verses
    80%

    2Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

    3And in answer he said to them, Why do you, yourselves, go against the word of God on account of the teaching which has been handed down to you?

    4For God said, Give honour to your father and mother: and, He who says evil of father or mother will be put to death.

    5But you say, If a man says to his father or his mother, That by which you might have had profit from me is given to God;

    6There is no need for him to give honour to his father. And you have made the word of God without effect because of your teaching.

    7You false ones, well did Isaiah say of you,

    8These people give me honour with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

    9But their worship is to no purpose, while they give as their teaching the rules of men.

    10And he got the people together and said to them, Give ear, and let my words be clear to you:

    11Not that which goes into the mouth makes a man unclean, but that which comes out of the mouth.

  • Col 2:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22(Rules which are all to come to an end with their use) after the orders and teaching of men?

    23These things seem to have a sort of wisdom in self-ordered worship and making little of oneself, and being cruel to the body, not honouring it by giving it its natural use.

  • 20These are the things which make a man unclean; but to take food with unwashed hands does not make a man unclean.

  • 14Giving no attention to the fictions of the Jews and the rules of men who have no true knowledge.

  • 71%

    23A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make men give a tenth of all sorts of sweet-smelling plants, but you give no thought to the more important things of the law, righteousness, and mercy, and faith; but it is right for you to do these, and not to let the others be undone.

    24You blind guides, who take out a fly from your drink, but make no trouble over a camel.

    25A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you make clean the outside of the cup and of the plate, but inside they are full of violent behaviour and uncontrolled desire.

    26You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

  • 39And the Lord said to him, You Pharisees make the outside of the cup and the plate clean; but inside you are thieves and full of evil.

  • Matt 23:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

    3All things, then, which they give you orders to do, these do and keep: but do not take their works as your example, for they say and do not.

    4They make hard laws and put great weights on men's backs; but they themselves will not put a finger to them.

  • 69%

    41But if you give to the poor such things as you are able, then all things are clean to you.

    42But a curse is on you, Pharisees! for you make men give a tenth of every sort of plant, and give no thought to right and the love of God; but it is right for you to do these things, and not let the others be undone.

  • 8You have made little of my holy things, and have made my Sabbaths unclean.

  • 8But you are turned out of the way; you have made the law hard for numbers of people; you have made the agreement of Levi of no value, says the Lord of armies.

  • Mark 7:18-20
    3 verses
    69%

    18And he said to them, Have even you so little wisdom? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside is not able to make him unclean,

    19Because it goes not into the heart but into the stomach, and goes out with the waste? He said this, making all food clean.

    20And he said, That which comes out of the man, that makes the man unclean.

  • 6Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.

  • 15And he said, You take care to seem right in the eyes of men, but God sees your hearts: and those things which are important in the opinion of men, are evil in the eyes of God.

  • 8And you have not taken care of my holy things; but you have put them as keepers to take care of my work in my holy place.

  • 18So the law which went before is put on one side, because it was feeble and without profit.

  • 30But the Pharisees and the teachers of the law were against the purpose of God for themselves, not having had his baptism.)

  • 6Do not give that which is holy to the dogs, or put your jewels before pigs, for fear that they will be crushed under foot by the pigs whose attack will then be made against you.

  • 10Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

  • 51You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

  • 22Moses gave you circumcision--not that it comes from Moses, but from the fathers--and even on the Sabbath you give a child circumcision.

  • 22And you will make unclean what is covering your pictured images of silver, and the plating of your images of gold: you will send them away as an unclean thing, saying, Be gone!