Mark 7:4

Webster's Bible (1833)

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.)

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  • Matt 23:25 : 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.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 being only (with meats and drinks and various washings) fleshly ordinances, imposed until a time of reformation.
  • Jas 4:8 : 8 Draw near to God, and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners; and purify your hearts, you double-minded.
  • Luke 11:38-39 : 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.
  • John 2:6 : 6 Now there were six water pots of stone set there after the Jews' manner of purifying, containing two or three metretes{2 to 3 metretes is about 20 to 30 U. S. Gallons, 16 to 25 imperial gallons, or 75 to 115 litres.} apiece.
  • Isa 1:16 : 16 Wash yourselves, make yourself clean. Put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; Cease to do evil.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your evil thoughts lodge within you?
  • Job 9:30-31 : 30 If I wash myself with snow, And cleanse my hands with lye, 31 Yet you will plunge me in the ditch. My own clothes shall abhor me.
  • Ps 26:6 : 6 I will wash my hands in innocence, So I will go about your altar, Yahweh;
  • John 3:25 : 25 There arose therefore a questioning on the part of John's disciples with some Jews about purification.
  • Matt 27:24 : 24 So when Pilate saw that nothing was being gained, but rather that a disturbance was starting, he took water, and washed his hands before the multitude, saying, "I am innocent of the blood of this righteous person. You see to it."
  • 1 John 1:7 : 7 But if we walk in the light, as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus Christ, his Son, cleanses us from all sin.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:1-3
    3 verses
    89%

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

    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.

  • Mark 7:5
    85%

    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?"

  • Matt 15:1-3
    3 verses
    80%

    1Then 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."

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

  • Mark 7:7-9
    3 verses
    78%

    7But 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."

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

  • Matt 15:20
    78%

    20These 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%

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

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

    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.

  • Mark 7:15-19
    5 verses
    75%

    15There 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.

    16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!"

    17When he had entered into a house away from the multitude, his disciples asked him about the parable.

    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 making all foods clean?"

  • 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.{TR reads "self-indulgence" instead of "unrighteousness"}

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

  • Lev 22:6
    72%

    6the 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 11:41
    71%

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

  • Lev 11:33-35
    3 verses
    71%

    33Every earthen vessel, into which any of them falls, all that is in it shall be unclean, and you shall break it.

    34All food which may be eaten, that on which water comes, shall be unclean; and all drink that may be drunk in every such vessel shall be unclean.

    35Everything whereupon part of their carcass falls shall be unclean; whether oven, or range for pots, it shall be broken in pieces: they are unclean, and shall be unclean to you.

  • Heb 9:10
    70%

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

  • Lev 15:10-12
    3 verses
    70%

    10Whoever touches anything that was under him shall be unclean until the evening. He who carries those things shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

    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.

    12"'The earthen vessel, which he who has the discharge touches, shall be broken; and every vessel of wood shall be rinsed in water.

  • Lev 15:27
    70%

    27Whoever touches these things shall be unclean, and shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Lev 6:28
    69%

    28But the earthen vessel in which it is boiled shall be broken; and if it is boiled in a brazen vessel, it shall be scoured, and rinsed in water.

  • Luke 7:36
    69%

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

  • Luke 14:1
    69%

    1It 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.

  • Matt 15:11
    69%

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

  • Luke 6:2
    69%

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

  • Matt 12:2
    69%

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

  • Mark 7:13
    68%

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

  • Lev 17:16
    68%

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

  • Matt 12:4
    68%

    4how he entered into the house of God, and ate the show bread, which was not lawful for him to eat, neither for those who were with him, but only for the priests?

  • Luke 6:4
    68%

    4how he entered into the house of God, and took and ate the show bread, and gave also to those who were with him, which is not lawful to eat except for the priests alone?"

  • John 13:5
    68%

    5Then he poured water into the basin, and began to wash the disciples' feet, and to wipe them with the towel that was wrapped around him.

  • Lev 15:7
    68%

    7"'He who touches the body of him who has the discharge shall wash his clothes, and bathe himself in water, and be unclean until the evening.

  • Exod 40:31
    68%

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

  • John 4:1
    68%

    1Therefore when the Lord knew that the Pharisees had heard that Jesus was making and baptizing more disciples than John

  • Exod 30:19
    68%

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

  • Lev 14:47
    68%

    47He who lies down in the house shall wash his clothes; and he who eats in the house shall wash his clothes.

  • Mark 2:24
    68%

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

  • Num 8:7
    68%

    7Thus shall you do to them, to cleanse them: sprinkle the water of cleansing on them, let them shave their whole bodies with a razor, and let them wash their clothes, and cleanse themselves.

  • Matt 15:17
    68%

    17Don't you understand that whatever goes into the mouth passes into the belly, and then out of the body?