Mark 7:8

World English Bible (2000)

"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."

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  • Mark 7:3-4 : 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, don't eat unless they wash their hands and forearms, holding to the tradition of the elders. 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.)
  • Isa 1:12 : 12 When you come to appear before me, who has required this at your hand, to trample my courts?

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:9-14
    6 verses
    90%

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

    10For Moses said, 'Honor your father and your mother;' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    11But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;"'

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

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

    14He called all the multitude to himself, and said to them, "Hear me, all of you, and understand.

  • Mark 7:2-7
    6 verses
    86%

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

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

    4They 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.)

    5The 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?"

    6He 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.

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

  • Matt 15:2-11
    10 verses
    80%

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

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

    4For God commanded, 'Honor your father and your mother,' and, 'He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.'

    5But 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,"

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

    7You hypocrites! Well did Isaiah prophesy of you, saying,

    8'These people draw near to me with their mouth, and honor me with their lips; but their heart is far from me.

    9And in vain do they worship me, teaching as doctrine rules made by men.'"

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

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

  • Col 2:22-23
    2 verses
    74%

    22(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

    23Which 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.

  • Matt 15:20
    73%

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

  • Titus 1:14
    72%

    14not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

  • Matt 23:23-26
    4 verses
    71%

    23"Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you tithe mint, dill, and cumin, and have left undone the weightier matters of the law: justice, mercy, and faith. But you ought to have done these, and not to have left the other undone.

    24You blind guides, who strain out a gnat, and swallow a camel!

    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.

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

  • Luke 11:39
    71%

    39The 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 23:3-4
    2 verses
    70%

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

    4For they bind heavy burdens that are grievous to be borne, and lay them on men's shoulders; but they themselves will not lift a finger to help them.

  • Luke 11:41-42
    2 verses
    69%

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

    42But 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.

  • Ezek 22:8
    69%

    8You have despised my holy things, and have profaned my Sabbaths.

  • Mal 2:8
    69%

    8But you have turned aside out of the way. You have caused many to stumble in the law. You have corrupted the covenant of Levi," says Yahweh of Armies.

  • Mark 7:18-20
    3 verses
    69%

    18He 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,

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

    20He said, "That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.

  • 2 Thess 3:6
    69%

    6Now we command you, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, that you withdraw yourselves from every brother who walks in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

  • Luke 16:15
    68%

    15He said to them, "You are those who justify yourselves in the sight of men, but God knows your hearts. For that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.

  • Ezek 44:8
    68%

    8You have not performed the duty of my holy things; but you have set performers of my duty in my sanctuary for yourselves.

  • Heb 7:18
    67%

    18For there is an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

  • Luke 7:30
    67%

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

  • Matt 7:6
    67%

    6"Don't give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

  • Heb 9:10
    67%

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

  • Acts 7:51
    67%

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

  • John 7:22
    67%

    22Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.

  • Isa 30:22
    67%

    22You shall defile the overlaying of your engraved images of silver, and the plating of your molten images of gold. You shall cast them away as an unclean thing. You shall tell it, "Go away!"