Mark 7:8

KJV1611 – Modern English

For laying aside the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, such as the washing of pots and cups; and many other similar things you do.

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  • Mark 7:3-4 : 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands often, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to hold, like the washing of cups, pots, bronze vessels, and tables.
  • Isa 1:12 : 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

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  • Mark 7:9-14
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    90%

    9And he said to them, You completely reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

    10For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.

    11But you say, If a man says to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is, a gift to God, by which you might have been benefited by me; he shall be free.

    12And you no longer allow him to do anything for his father or his mother,

    13Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.

    14And when he had called all the people to him, he said to them, Listen to me, every one of you, and understand:

  • Mark 7:2-7
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    86%

    2And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is, with unwashed hands, they found fault.

    3For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands often, holding the tradition of the elders.

    4And when they come from the market, unless they wash, they do not eat. And there are many other things which they have received to hold, like the washing of cups, pots, bronze vessels, and tables.

    5Then the Pharisees and scribes asked him, Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat bread with unwashed hands?

    6He answered and said to them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honors me with their lips, but their heart is far from me.

    7However, in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

  • Matt 15:2-11
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    80%

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

    3But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition?

    4For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die.

    5But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me;

    6And does not honor his father or his mother, he shall be free. Thus have you made the commandment of God of no effect by your tradition.

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

    8This people draws near to me with their mouth, and honors me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

    9But in vain they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.

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

    11Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

  • Col 2:22-23
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    74%

    22Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

    23These things indeed have an appearance of wisdom in self-imposed religion, false humility, and neglect of the body, but are of no value against the indulgence of the flesh.

  • Matt 15:20
    73%

    20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

  • Titus 1:14
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    14Not giving heed to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn from the truth.

  • Matt 23:23-26
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    23Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you pay tithe of mint and anise and cumin, and have omitted the weightier matters of the law, justice, mercy, and faith: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

    24Blind guides, who strain out a gnat and swallow a camel.

    25Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess.

    26Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also.

  • Luke 11:39
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    39And the Lord said to him, Now you Pharisees make clean the outside of the cup and the platter; but your inward part is full of greed and wickedness.

  • Matt 23:3-4
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    3Therefore, whatever they ask you to observe, that observe and do; but do not do according to their works: for they say and do not.

    4For they bind heavy burdens, hard to bear, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not move them with one of their fingers.

  • Luke 11:41-42
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    41But rather give alms of such things as you have; and behold, all things are clean to you.

    42But woe to you, Pharisees! for you tithe mint and rue and every kind of herb, and pass over judgment and the love of God: these you ought to have done, without leaving the others undone.

  • Ezek 22:8
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    8You have despised My holy things, and have profaned My sabbaths.

  • Mal 2:8
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    8But you have turned out of the way; you have caused many to stumble at the law; you have corrupted the covenant of Levi, says the LORD of hosts.

  • Mark 7:18-20
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    18And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

    19Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?

    20And he said, What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
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    6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks disorderly and not according to the tradition which he received from us.

  • Luke 16:15
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    15And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  • Ezek 44:8
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    8And you have not kept the charge of my holy things; but you have appointed others to take care of my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Heb 7:18
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    18For there is indeed a setting aside of the former commandment because of its weakness and unprofitableness.

  • Luke 7:30
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    30But the Pharisees and lawyers rejected the counsel of God against themselves, not being baptized by him.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6Do not give what is holy to the dogs, nor cast your pearls before swine, lest they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Heb 9:10
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    10Concerned only with foods and drinks, various washings, and fleshly ordinances imposed until the time of reformation.

  • Acts 7:51
    67%

    51You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

  • John 7:22
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    22Moses therefore gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.

  • Isa 30:22
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    22You shall defile also the covering of your graven images of silver, and the ornament of your molten images of gold: you shall cast them away as a menstrual cloth; you shall say to it, Be gone.