Mark 7:9 - The Message He went on, “Well, good for you. You get rid of God’s command so you won’t be inconvenienced in following the religious fashions! Moses said, ‘Respect your father and mother,’ and, ‘Anyone denouncing father or mother should be killed.’ But you weasel out of that by saying that it’s perfectly acceptable to say to father or mother, ‘Gift! What I owed you I’ve given as a gift to God,’ thus relieving yourselves of obligation to father or mother. You scratch out God’s Word and scrawl a whim in its place. You do a lot of things like this.” More versionsKing 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. |