Mark 7:4

Bible in Basic English 1965

And when they come from the market-place, they take no food till their hands are washed; and a number of other orders there are, which have been handed down to them to keepwashings of cups and pots and brass vessels.

Cross References

Psalm 26:6

I will make my hands clean from sin; so will I go round your altar, O Lord;

Isaiah 1:16

Be washed, make yourselves clean; put away the evil of your doings from before my eyes; let there be an end of sinning;

Jeremiah 35:5

And I put before the sons of the Rechabites basins full of wine and cups, and I said to them, Take some wine.

Jeremiah 4:14

O Jerusalem, make your heart clean from evil, so that you may have salvation. How long are evil purposes to have a resting-place in you?

Matthew 23:25

You blind Pharisee, first make clean the inside of the cup and of the plate, so that the outside may become equally clean.

Matthew 23:26

A curse is on you, scribes and Pharisees, false ones! for you are like the resting-places of the dead, which are made white, and seem beautiful on the outside, but inside are full of dead men's bones and of all unclean things.

Matthew 27:24

So when Pilate saw that he was able to do nothing, but that trouble was working up, he took water and, washing his hands before the people, said, The blood of this upright man is not on my hands: you are responsible.

Mark 7:8

For, turning away from the law of God, you keep the rules of men.

John 2:6

Now six pots of stone, every one taking two or three firkins of water, were placed there for the purpose of washing, as is the way of the Jews.

John 3:25

Then a question came up between John's disciples and a Jew about washing.

Hebrews 9:10

Because they are only rules of the flesh, of meats and drinks and washings, which have their place till the time comes when things will be put right.

James 4:8

Come near to God and he will come near to you. Make your hands clean, you evil-doers; put away deceit from your hearts, you false in mind.

1 John 1:7

But if we are walking in the light, as he is in the light, we are all united with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son makes us clean from all sin.