Mark 7:4

New Century Version

And when they buy something in the market, they never eat it until they wash themselves in a special way. They also follow many other unwritten laws, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and pots.)

Cross References

Psalm 26:6

I wash my hands to show I am innocent, and I come to your altar, Lord.

Isaiah 1:16

Wash yourselves and make yourselves clean. Stop doing the evil things I see you do. Stop doing wrong.

Jeremiah 35:5

Then I put some bowls full of wine and some cups before the men of the Recabite family. And I said to them, “Drink some wine.”

Jeremiah 4:14

People of Jerusalem, clean the evil from your hearts so that you can be saved. Don’t continue making evil plans.

Matthew 23:25

“How terrible for you, teachers of the law and Pharisees! You are hypocrites! You wash the outside of your cups and dishes, but inside they are full of things you got by cheating others and by pleasing only yourselves.

Matthew 23:26

Pharisees, you are blind! First make the inside of the cup clean, and then the outside of the cup can be truly clean.

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing about this and that a riot was starting, he took some water and washed his hands in front of the crowd. Then he said, “I am not guilty of this man’s death. You are the ones who are causing it!”

Mark 7:8

You have stopped following the commands of God, and you follow only human teachings.”

John 2:6

In that place there were six stone water jars that the Jews used in their washing ceremony. Each jar held about twenty or thirty gallons.

John 3:25

Some of John’s followers had an argument with a Jew about religious washing.

Hebrews 9:10

These gifts and sacrifices were only about food and drink and special washings. They were rules for the body, to be followed until the time of God’s new way.

James 4:8

Come near to God, and God will come near to you. You sinners, clean sin out of your lives. You who are trying to follow God and the world at the same time, make your thinking pure.

1 John 1:7

But if we live in the light, as God is in the light, we can share fellowship with each other. Then the blood of Jesus, God’s Son, cleanses us from every sin.