Mark 7:9

New Century Version

Then Jesus said to them, “You cleverly ignore the commands of God so you can follow your own teachings.

Cross References

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to do something, because people have disobeyed your teachings.

Isaiah 24:5

The people of the earth have ruined it, because they do not follow God’s teachings or obey God’s laws or keep their agreement with God that was to last forever.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says: “These people worship me with their mouths, and honor me with their lips, but their hearts are far from me. Their worship is based on nothing but human rules.

Daniel 11:36

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

Daniel 7:25

This king will speak against the Most High God, and he will hurt and kill God’s holy people. He will try to change times and laws that have already been set. The holy people that belong to God will be in that king’s power for three and one-half years.

Mark 7:13

By your own rules, which you teach people, you are rejecting what God said. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 7:3

(The Pharisees and all the Jews never eat before washing their hands in the way required by their unwritten laws.

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and the teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Why don’t your followers obey the unwritten laws which have been handed down to us? Why do your followers eat their food with hands that are not clean?”

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 anyone who comes to you and preaches a different Jesus from the one we preached. You are very willing to accept a spirit or gospel that is different from the Spirit and Good News you received from us.

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion, doing better than most other Jews of my age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the teachings handed down by our ancestors.

Galatians 2:21

By saying these things I am not going against God’s grace. Just the opposite, if the law could make us right with God, then Christ’s death would be useless.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will be against and put himself above any so-called god or anything that people worship. And that Man of Evil will even go into God’s Temple and sit there and say that he is God.