Mark 7:5

Bible in Basic English 1965

And the Pharisees and the scribes put the question to him, Why do your disciples not keep the rules of the fathers, but take their bread with unwashed hands?

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

Why do your disciples go against the teaching of the fathers? for they take food with unwashed hands.

Mark 7:13

Making the word of God of no effect by your rule, which you have given: and a number of other such things you do.

Mark 7:8

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

Mark 7:9

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

Acts 21:21

And they have had news of you, how you have been teaching all the Jews among the Gentiles to give up the law of Moses, and not to give circumcision to their children, and not to keep the old rules.

Acts 21:24

Go with these, and make yourself clean with them, and make the necessary payments for them, so that they may be free from their oath: and everyone will see that the statements made about you are not true, but that you put yourself under rule, and keep the law.

Romans 4:12

And the father of circumcision to those who not only are of the circumcision, but who keep to the way of that faith which our father Abraham had before he underwent circumcision.

Galatians 1:14

And I went farther in the Jews' religion than a number of my generation among my countrymen, having a more burning interest in the beliefs handed down from my fathers.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

For it has come to our ears that there are some among you whose behaviour is uncontrolled, who do no work at all, but are over-interested in the business of others.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

Now we give you orders, brothers, in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, to keep away from all those whose behaviour is not well ordered and in harmony with the teaching which they had from us.