Mark 7:9

Easy To Read Version

Then Jesus said to them: “You think you are smart! You ignore the commands of God so that you can follow your own teachings!

Cross References

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to do something.\par The people have broken your law.\par

Isaiah 24:5

The people on the land have made the land dirty. \{How did this happen\}? The people did wrong things against God’s teaching. The people did not obey God’s laws. The people made an agreement with God a long time ago, but those people broke their agreement with God.

Isaiah 29:13

My Master says, “These people say they love me. They show honor to me with words from their mouths. But their hearts are far from me. The honor they show me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.

Daniel 11:36

“‘The northern king will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself. He will praise himself and think that he is even better than a god. He will say things that no one has ever heard of. He will say those things against the God of gods. He will be successful until all the bad things have happened. What God has planned to happen will happen.

Daniel 7:25

This special king will say things against God Most High. And that king will hurt and kill God’s special people. That king will try to change the times and laws that have already been set. God’s special people will be in that king’s power for 3 1/2 years. {\cf2\super [82]}

Mark 7:13

So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think that it is more important to follow those rules you teach people. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 7:3

The Pharisees and all the Jews never eat before washing their hands in this special way. They do this to follow the teaching given to them by their great people that lived before them.

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees {\cf2\super [82]} and teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Your followers don’t follow the rules given to us by our great people that lived before us. Your followers eat their food with hands that are not clean. Why do they do this?”

Romans 3:31

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? No! Faith causes us to be what the law truly wants.

2 Corinthians 11:4

You are very patient with any person who comes to you and tells you things about Jesus that are different from the things we told you. You are very willing to accept a spirit or a gospel that is different from the Spirit {\cf2\super [31]} and gospel {\cf2\super [32]} that you received from us. \{So you should be patient with me.\}

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion. I did better than most other Jews my own age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the old rules. These rules were the customs we got from our ancestors. {\cf2\super [5]}

Galatians 2:21

This gift is from God, and it is very important to me. Why? Because if law could make us right with God, then Christ did not have to die.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

That Man of Evil is against anything called God or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil puts himself above anything called God or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil even goes into God’s temple {\cf2\super [5]} and sits there. Then he says that he is God.