Mark 7:9 - Tree of Life Version

⁹ He was also telling them, “You set aside the commands of God, in order that you may validate your own tradition.

More versions

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 Adonai to act— they have violated Your Torah!

Isaiah 24:5

The land is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed Torah, violated statutes, and broken the everlasting covenant.

Isaiah 29:13

So Adonai says, “Since these people draw near with their mouths and honor Me with their lips, yet their hearts are far from Me, and their fear of Me is a mitzvah taught by men.

Daniel 11:36

“So the king will do as he pleases, exalting and magnifying himself above every god. He will even speak outrageous things against the God of gods. He will prosper until the time of wrath is completed, for what has been decided will be done.

Daniel 7:25

He will speak words against the Most High, and will continually harass the kedoshim of the Most High, and will try to change the appointed times and law. The kedoshim will be handed over to him for a time, times and half a time.

Mark 7:13

making void the word of God with your tradition that you’ve handed down. And you do many such things.”

Mark 7:3

(For the Pharisees and all Jewish people do not eat unless they wash their hands up to the elbow, keeping the tradition of the elders.

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and Torah scholars questioned Yeshua, “Why don’t Your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders? Why do they eat bread with unwashed hands?”

Romans 3:31

Do we then nullify the Torah through faithfulness? May it never be! On the contrary, we uphold the Torah.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For if someone comes and proclaims another Yeshua whom we did not proclaim, or if you receive a different spirit that you did not receive, or a different “good news” that you did not accept, you put up with that well enough!

Galatians 1:14

I was even advancing within Judaism beyond many my own age among my people, being a more extreme observer of my fathers’ traditions.

Galatians 2:21

I do not nullify the grace of God—for if righteousness comes through Torah, then Messiah died for no reason!

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in the Temple of God, proclaiming himself that he is God.