Mark 7:9 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁹ And 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 thy law has been broken.

Isaiah 24:5

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

Isaiah 29:13

And the Lord said: “Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment of men learned by rote;

Daniel 11:36

“And the king shall do according to his will; he shall exalt himself and magnify himself above every god, and shall speak astonishing things against the God of gods. He shall prosper till the indignation is accomplished; for what is determined shall be done.

Daniel 7:25

He shall speak words against the Most High, and shall wear out the saints of the Most High, and shall think to change the times and the law; and they shall be given into his hand for a time, two times, and half a time.

Mark 7:13

thus making void the word of God through your tradition which you hand on. And many such things you do.”

Mark 7:3

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

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?”

Romans 3:31

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

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if some one comes and preaches another Jesus than the one we preached, or if you receive a different spirit from the one you received, or if you accept a different gospel from the one you accepted, you submit to it readily enough.

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.

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God; for if justification were through the law, then Christ died to no purpose.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

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