Mark 7:8 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

“You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

You disregard and give up and ask to depart from you the commandment of God and cling to the tradition of men [keeping it carefully and faithfully].

American Standard Version (1901)

Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

Common English Bible

You ignore God’s commandment while holding on to rules created by humans and handed down to you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

For abandoning the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men, to the washing of pitchers and cups. And you do many other things similar to these."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

Mark 7:8 Cross References

Isaiah 1:12

When you come to appear before me, who asked this from your hand? Trample my courts no more!

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why do your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders but eat with defiled hands?”

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in Judaism beyond many among my people of the same age, for I was far more zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.