Mark 7:9

Good News Translation

And Jesus continued, “You have a clever way of rejecting God's law in order to uphold your own teaching.

Cross References

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to act, because people are disobeying your law.

Isaiah 24:5

The people have defiled the earth by breaking God's laws and by violating the covenant he made to last forever.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord said, “These people claim to worship me, but their words are meaningless, and their hearts are somewhere else. Their religion is nothing but human rules and traditions, which they have simply memorized.

Daniel 11:36

“The king of Syria will do as he pleases. He will boast that he is greater than any god, superior even to the Supreme God. He will be able to do this until the time when God punishes him. God will do exactly what he has planned.

Daniel 7:25

He will speak against the Supreme God and oppress God's people. He will try to change their religious laws and festivals, and God's people will be under his power for three and a half years.

Mark 7:13

In this way the teaching you pass on to others cancels out the word of God. And there are many other things like this that you do.”

Mark 7:3

For the Pharisees, as well as the rest of the Jews, follow the teaching they received from their ancestors: they do not eat unless they wash their hands in the proper way;

Mark 7:5

So the Pharisees and the teachers of the Law asked Jesus, “Why is it that your disciples do not follow the teaching handed down by our ancestors, but instead eat with ritually unclean hands?”

Romans 3:31

Does this mean that by this faith we do away with the Law? No, not at all; instead, we uphold the Law.

2 Corinthians 11:4

For you gladly tolerate anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus, not the one we preached; and you accept a spirit and a gospel completely different from the Spirit and the gospel you received from us!

Galatians 1:14

I was ahead of most other Jews of my age in my practice of the Jewish religion, and was much more devoted to the traditions of our ancestors.

Galatians 2:21

I refuse to reject the grace of God. But if a person is put right with God through the Law, it means that Christ died for nothing!

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will oppose every so-called god or object of worship and will put himself above them all. He will even go in and sit down in God's Temple and claim to be God.