Mark 7:9

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Matt 15:3-6 : 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 7:13 : 13 making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this."
  • Gal 2:21 : 21 I don't make void the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!"
  • Mark 7:3 : 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.
  • Rom 3:31 : 31 Do we then nullify the law through faith? May it never be! No, we establish the law.
  • 2 Kgs 16:10-16 : 10 King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest the fashion of the altar, and its pattern, according to all its workmanship. 11 Urijah the priest built an altar: according to all that king Ahaz had sent from Damascus, so did Urijah the priest make it against the coming of king Ahaz from Damascus. 12 When the king was come from Damascus, the king saw the altar: and the king drew near to the altar, and offered thereon. 13 He burnt his burnt offering and his meal offering, and poured his drink offering, and sprinkled the blood of his peace offerings, on the altar. 14 The bronze altar, which was before Yahweh, he brought from the forefront of the house, from between his altar and the house of Yahweh, and put it on the north side of his altar. 15 King Ahaz commanded Urijah the priest, saying, "On the great altar burn the morning burnt offering, and the evening meal offering, and the king's burnt offering, and his meal offering, with the burnt offering of all the people of the land, and their meal offering, and their drink offerings; and sprinkle on it all the blood of the burnt offering, and all the blood of the sacrifice; but the bronze altar shall be for me to inquire by." 16 Urijah the priest did so, according to all that king Ahaz commanded.
  • Ps 119:126 : 126 It is time to act, Yahweh, for they break your law.
  • Isa 24:5 : 5 The earth also is polluted under its inhabitants, because they have transgressed the laws, violated the statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.
  • Isa 29:13 : 13 The Lord said, "Because this people draws near with their mouth and with their lips to honor me, but they have removed their heart far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men which has been taught;
  • Jer 44:16-17 : 16 As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of Yahweh, we will not listen to you. 17 But we will certainly perform every word that is gone forth out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, 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 had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.
  • Dan 7:25 : 25 He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High; and he shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.
  • 2 Thess 2:4 : 4 he who opposes and exalts himself against all that is called God or that is worshiped; so that he sits as God in the temple of God, setting himself up as God.
  • Dan 11:36 : 36 The king shall do according to his will; and he shall exalt himself, and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak marvelous things against the God of gods; and he shall prosper until the indignation be accomplished; for that which is determined shall be done.

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    2 Now 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.

    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."

  • Matt 15:2-10
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    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.

    7 You 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.

    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.

  • Mark 7:10-14
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    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.'

    11 But 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;"'

    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."

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

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    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.

  • Col 2:22
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    22 (all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

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

  • John 7:19
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    19 Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"

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    3 He answered, "What did Moses command you?"

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    15 He 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.

  • Matt 23:25-26
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    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 10:19
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    19 You know the commandments: 'Do not murder,' 'Do not commit adultery,' 'Do not steal,' 'Do not give false testimony,' 'Do not defraud,' 'Honor your father and mother.'"

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    4 For 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.

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    20 You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' '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 you do.

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

  • Matt 23:23
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    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.

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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 in rebellion, and not after the tradition which they received from us.

  • Matt 7:6
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    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.

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    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.

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

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    5 But Jesus said to them, "For your hardness of heart, he wrote you this commandment.

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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 guiltless.

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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 an annulling of a foregoing commandment because of its weakness and uselessness

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  • Matt 19:7
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  • Matt 15:20
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    20 These are the things which defile the man; but to eat with unwashed hands doesn't defile the man."

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