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Mark 7:2

Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

They observed that some of his disciples were eating bread with unclean   #– #that is, unwashed #– #hands.

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Peter said to them, ‘You know it’s forbidden for a Jewish man to associate with or visit a foreigner,  but God has shown me that I must not call any person impure or unclean.


I know and am persuaded in the Lord Jesus that nothing is unclean in itself.  Still, to someone who considers a thing to be unclean, to that one it is unclean.


‘ “No, Lord! ” I said. “For nothing impure or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth.”


‘Why do your disciples  break the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.’  ,


So the Pharisees  and the scribes  asked him, ‘Why don’t your disciples live  according to the tradition of the elders,  instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean  hands? ’


When the Pharisee saw this, he was amazed that he did not first perform the ritual washing  , before dinner.


How much worse punishment do you think one will deserve who has trampled on the Son of God, who has regarded as profane  the blood of the covenant by which he was sanctified, and who has insulted the Spirit of grace?


Nothing unclean will ever enter it,  nor anyone who does what is detestable or false, but only those written in the Lamb’s book of life.





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