Mark 7:9 - English Majority Text Version 2009

And He said to them, "Well do you set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your tradition.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)!

American Standard Version (1901)

And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

Common English Bible

Jesus continued, “Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God’s commandment in order to establish these rules.

Catholic Public Domain Version

And he said to them: "You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

Mark 7:9 Cross References

Mark 7:13

[thus] nullifying the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. And many similar things you do."

Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands with [their] fist, holding the tradition of the elders.

Mark 7:5

Then the Pharisees and scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but they eat bread with unwashed hands?"

Romans 3:31

Therefore do we nullify the law through faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold [the] law.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if he who comes [to you ]preaches another Jesus whom we did not preach, or if you receive a different spirit which you have not received, or a different gospel which you did not accept, you may well put up with him!

Galatians 1:14

And I was advancing in Judaism above many my own age, being far more zealous for the traditions of my forefathers.

Galatians 2:21

I do not annul the grace of God; for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing."

2 Thessalonians 2:4

who opposes and exalts himself above all that is called God, or [every] object of worship, so that he sits as God in the temple of God, showing himself that he is God.