Mark 7:8 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁸ You leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ 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

⁸ 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)

⁸ Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

Common English Bible

⁸ You ignore God’s commandment while holding on to rules created by humans and handed down to you.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ 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

⁸ 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 requires of you this trampling of my courts?

Mark 7:5

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

Galatians 1:14

and I advanced in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people, so extremely zealous was I for the traditions of my fathers.