Mark 7:13 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

¹³ You are making God’s message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹³ making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹³ Thus you are nullifying and making void and of no effect [the authority of] the Word of God through your tradition, which you [in turn] hand on. And many things of this kind you are doing.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹³ making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.

Common English Bible

¹³ In this way you do away with God’s word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹³ rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way."

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹³ Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do.

Mark 7:13 Cross References

Matthew 15:6

this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

Mark 7:12

you are not allowing him to do anything for his father or mother anymore.

Mark 7:14

Then He called the crowd to Him again and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand [what I am saying].

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and experts in the Law of Moses asked Jesus, “Why do your disciples not live according to the traditions of the Jewish elders, but [instead] eat their food with contaminated [i.e., ceremonially unwashed] hands?”

Mark 7:9

And He said to them, “You are good at rejecting the commandment of God so you can keep your traditions.

Galatians 1:14

I advanced in the Jewish religion beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen. I have been extremely more zealous in advocating the traditions [taught] by my forefathers.

Galatians 5:21

envy, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these. I warn you again, as I have done before, that those people who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

Titus 1:14

instead of paying attention to Jewish myths and commandments of men who reject the truth.