Mark 7:13

An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

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

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.