Mark 7:4

Contemporary English Version 1995

None of them will eat anything they buy in the market until it is washed. They also follow a lot of other teachings, such as washing cups, pitchers, and bowls.

Cross References

Hebrews 9:10

These rules are merely about such things as eating and drinking and ceremonies for washing ourselves. And rules about physical things will last only until the time comes to change them for something better.

Matthew 23:25

You Pharisees and teachers are show-offs, and you're in for trouble! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, while inside there is nothing but greed and selfishness.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and he will come near to you. Clean up your lives, you sinners. Purify your hearts, you people who can't make up your mind.

John 2:6

At the feast there were six stone water jars that were used by the people for washing themselves in the way that their religion said they must. Each jar held about 100 liters.

Jeremiah 4:14

But Jerusalem, there is still time for you to be saved. Wash the evil from your hearts and stop making sinful plans,

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves clean! I hate your filthy deeds. Stop doing wrong

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light, as God does, we share in life with each other. And the blood of his Son Jesus washes all our sins away.

Matthew 27:24

Pilate saw that there was nothing he could do and that the people were starting to riot. So he took some water and washed his hands in front of them and said, “I won't have anything to do with killing this man. You are the ones doing it!”

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands, Lord, to show my innocence, and I worship at your altar,

John 3:25

John's followers got into an argument with a Jewish man about a ceremony of washing.

Jeremiah 35:5

I set out some large bowls full of wine together with some cups, and then I said to the Rechabites, “Have some wine!”

Matthew 23:26

You blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of a cup, and then the outside will also be clean.

Mark 7:8

You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught.