Mark 7:3

World English Bible (2000)

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders.

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  • Mark 7:13 : 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
  • Gal 1:14 : 14 I advanced in the Jews' religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
  • Col 2:8 : 8 Be careful that you don't let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.
  • Col 2:21-23 : 21 "Don't handle, nor taste, nor touch" 22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men? 23 Which things indeed appear like wisdom in self-imposed worship, and humility, and severity to the body; but aren't of any value against the indulgence of the flesh.
  • 1 Pet 1:18 : 18 knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,
  • Matt 15:2-6 : 2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread." 3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition? 4 For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.' 5 But you say, 'Whoever may tell his father or his mother, "Whatever help you might otherwise have gotten from me is a gift devoted to God," 6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.
  • Mark 7:5 : 5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"
  • Mark 7:7-9 : 7 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.' 8 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things." 9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition. 10 For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

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  • Mark 7:4-9
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    89%

    4 They don't eat when they come from the marketplace, unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things, which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

    5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why don't your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?"

    6 He answered 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 But in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.'

    8 "For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men--the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things."

    9 He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

  • Mark 7:1-2
    2 verses
    87%

    1 Then the Pharisees, and some of the scribes gathered together to him, having come from Jerusalem.

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

  • Matt 15:1-3
    3 verses
    85%

    1 Then Pharisees and scribes came to Jesus from Jerusalem, saying,

    2 "Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don't wash their hands when they eat bread."

    3 He answered them, "Why do you also disobey the commandment of God because of your tradition?

  • Matt 15:20
    78%

    20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

  • Luke 11:37-39
    3 verses
    76%

    37 Now as he spoke, a certain Pharisee asked him to dine with him. He went in, and sat at the table.

    38 When the Pharisee saw it, he marveled that he had not first washed himself before dinner.

    39 The Lord said to him, "Now you 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%

    25 "Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and unrighteousness.

    26 You blind Pharisee, first clean the inside of the cup and of the platter, that its outside may become clean also.

  • Mark 7:18-19
    2 verses
    72%

    18 He said to them, "Are you thus without understanding also? Don't you perceive that whatever goes into the man from outside can't defile him,

    19 because it doesn't go into his heart, but into his stomach, then into the latrine, thus purifying all foods?"

  • Mark 7:12-13
    2 verses
    71%

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

    13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."

  • Lev 22:6
    71%

    6 the person that touches any such shall be unclean until the evening, and shall not eat of the holy things, unless he bathe his body in water.

  • Luke 6:2
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    2 But some of the Pharisees said to them, "Why do you do that which is not lawful to do on the Sabbath day?"

  • Matt 23:3
    71%

    3 All things therefore whatever they tell you to observe, observe and do, but don't do their works; for they say, and don't do.

  • Mark 2:24
    70%

    24 The Pharisees said to him, "Behold, why do they do that which is not lawful on the Sabbath day?"

  • Luke 7:30
    70%

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

  • Luke 11:41-42
    2 verses
    70%

    41 But give for gifts to the needy those things which are within, and behold, all things will be clean to you.

    42 But woe to you Pharisees! For you tithe mint and rue and every herb, but you bypass justice and the love of God. You ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

  • Matt 15:9-12
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    9 And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

    10 He summoned the multitude, and said to them, "Hear, and understand.

    11 That which enters into the mouth doesn't defile the man; but that which proceeds out of the mouth, this defiles the man."

    12 Then the disciples came, and said to him, "Do you know that the Pharisees were offended, when they heard this saying?"

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

  • Luke 7:36
    69%

    36 One of the Pharisees invited him to eat with him. He entered into the Pharisee's house, and sat at the table.

  • Mark 7:15
    69%

    15 There is nothing from outside of 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
    69%

    11 "'Whoever he who has the discharge touches, without having rinsed his hands in water, he shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Heb 9:10
    68%

    10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.

  • Exod 30:19
    68%

    19 Aaron and his sons shall wash their hands and their feet in it.

  • Luke 5:33
    68%

    33 They said to him, "Why do John's disciples often fast and pray, likewise also the disciples of the Pharisees, but yours eat and drink?"

  • Exod 40:31
    68%

    31 Moses, Aaron, and his sons washed their hands and their feet there.

  • Exod 30:21
    68%

    21 So they shall wash their hands and their feet, that they not die: and it shall be a statute forever to them, even to him and to his descendants throughout their generations."

  • Luke 6:7
    68%

    7 The scribes and the Pharisees watched him, to see whether he would heal on the Sabbath, that they might find an accusation against him.

  • Matt 23:5
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    5 But all their works they do to be seen by men. They make their phylacteries broad, enlarge the fringes of their garments,

  • Matt 15:6
    68%

    6 he shall not honor his father or mother.' You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

  • Luke 14:1
    67%

    1 It happened, 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
    67%

    16 But if he doesn't wash them, or bathe his flesh, then he shall bear his iniquity.'"

  • Matt 9:11
    67%

    11 When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, "Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?"

  • Mark 3:6
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    6 The Pharisees went out, and immediately conspired with the Herodians against him, how they might destroy him.

  • Matt 16:12
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    12 Then they understood that he didn't tell them to beware of the yeast of bread, but of the teaching of the Pharisees and Sadducees.

  • Lev 7:19
    67%

    19 "'The flesh that touches any unclean thing shall not be eaten. It shall be burned with fire. As for the flesh, everyone who is clean may eat it;