Mark 7:9 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁹ Then he said to them, “You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

Common English Bible

⁹ Jesus continued, “Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God’s commandment in order to establish these rules.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ 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

Psalm 119:126

It is time for the Lord to act, for your law has been broken.

Isaiah 24:5

The earth lies polluted under its inhabitants, for they have transgressed laws, violated the statutes, broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said: Because these people draw near with their mouths and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me and their worship of me is a human commandment learned by rote,

Daniel 11:36

“The king shall act as he pleases. He shall exalt himself and consider himself greater than any god and shall speak horrendous things against the God of gods. He shall prosper until the period of wrath is completed, for what is determined shall be done.

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High, shall wear out the holy ones of the Most High, and shall attempt to change the ritual calendar and the law, and they shall be given into his power for a time, two times, and half a time.

Mark 7:13

thus nullifying the word of God through your tradition that you have handed on. And you do many things like this.”

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, do not eat unless they wash their hands, thus observing the tradition of the elders,

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?”

Romans 3:31

Do we then overthrow the law through this faith? By no means! On the contrary, we uphold the law.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if someone comes and proclaims another Jesus than the one we proclaimed, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or a different gospel from the one you accepted, you put up with it readily enough.

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.

Galatians 2:21

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

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he takes his seat in the temple of God, declaring himself to be God.