Mark 7:9

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Matt 15:3-6 : 3 But he answered and said to them, Why do you also transgress the commandment of God by your tradition? 4 For God commanded, saying, Honor your father and mother: and, He that curses father or mother, let him die. 5 But you say, Whoever shall say to his father or his mother, It is a gift, by whatever you might be profited by me; 6 And 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.
  • Mark 7:13 : 13 Making the word of God of no effect through your tradition, which you have handed down; and you do many similar things.
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I do not set aside the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died in vain.
  • Mark 7:3 : 3 For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands often, holding the tradition of the elders.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then make void the law through faith? Certainly not: on the contrary, we establish the law.
  • 2 Kgs 16:10-16 : 10 Then king Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath-Pileser king of Assyria and saw an altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the design of the altar and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. 11 Then Urijah the priest built an altar according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus; so Urijah the priest made it before king Ahaz came from Damascus. 12 And when the king came from Damascus, the king saw the altar; and the king approached the altar and offered on it. 13 He burned his burnt offering and his grain offering, poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings on the altar. 14 He also brought the bronze altar, which was before the LORD, from the front of the temple, from between the altar and the house of the LORD, and put it on the north side of the altar. 15 Then king Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, the evening grain offering, the king's burnt sacrifice, and his grain offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, their grain offering and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering and all the blood of the sacrifice; and the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by. 16 Thus Urijah the priest did according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time for You to act, O LORD, for they have regarded Your law as void.
  • Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth also is defiled under its inhabitants because they have transgressed the laws, changed the ordinance, broken the everlasting covenant.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 Therefore the Lord said, Forasmuch as this people draw near to me with their mouth, and with their lips do honor me, but have removed their heart far from me, and their fear toward me is taught by the precept of men:
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the LORD, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly do whatever thing proceeds out of our own mouth, to burn incense to the queen of heaven, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings, and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem: for then we had plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 And he shall speak great words against the Most High and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and think to change times and laws; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 Who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or that is worshiped; so that he as God sits in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak unusual things against the God of gods, and shall prosper until the indignation is accomplished; for what has been determined shall be done.

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

    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.

    5 Then 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?

    6 He 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.

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

    8 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.

  • Matt 15:2-10
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    2 Why do your disciples transgress the tradition of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat bread.

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

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

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

    6 And 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.

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

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

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

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

  • Mark 7:10-14
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    10 For Moses said, Honor your father and your mother; and, Whoever curses father or mother, let him be put to death.

    11 But 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.

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

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

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

  • Luke 11:39
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    39 And 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.

  • Col 2:22
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    22 Which all concern things which perish with the using, according to the commandments and doctrines of men?

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

  • John 7:19
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    19 Did not Moses give you the law, yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?

  • Mark 10:3
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    3 And he answered and said to them, What did Moses command you?

  • Luke 16:15
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    15 And 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.

  • Matt 23:25-26
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    25 Woe 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.

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

  • Mark 10:19
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    19 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Do not defraud, Honor your father and mother.

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

    4 For 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.

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

  • Luke 18:20
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    20 You know the commandments: Do not commit adultery, Do not kill, Do not steal, Do not bear false witness, Honor your father and your mother.

  • Acts 7:51-52
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    51 You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.

    52 Which of the prophets have your fathers not persecuted? And they have killed those who foretold the coming of the Just One, of whom you have now become the betrayers and murderers,

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

  • Matt 23:23
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    23 Woe 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.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
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    6 Now 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.

  • Matt 7:6
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    6 Do 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.

  • Luke 11:42
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    42 But 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.

  • Deut 7:4
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    4 For they will turn your son away from following me, that they may serve other gods: so the anger of the LORD will be kindled against you, and destroy you suddenly.

  • Mark 10:5
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    5 And Jesus answered and said to them, Because of the hardness of your heart he wrote you this precept.

  • Matt 12:7
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    7 But if you had known what this means, I desire mercy and not sacrifice, you would not have condemned the innocent.

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

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

  • Matt 12:2
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    2 But when the Pharisees saw it, they said to him, Look, your disciples do what is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day.

  • Matt 19:7
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    7 They said to him, Why then did Moses command to give a certificate of divorce, and to put her away?

  • Matt 15:20
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    20 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

  • Matt 22:18
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    18 But Jesus perceived their wickedness, and said, Why do you test me, you hypocrites?

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