Mark 7:4

New English Translation

And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

Cross References

Psalm 26:6

I maintain a pure lifestyle, so I can appear before your altar, O Lord,

Isaiah 1:16

Wash! Cleanse yourselves! Remove your sinful deeds from my sight. Stop sinning!

Jeremiah 35:5

Then I set cups and pitchers full of wine in front of the members of the Rechabite community and said to them, “Have some wine.”

Jeremiah 4:14

“Oh people of Jerusalem, purify your hearts from evil so that you may yet be delivered. How long will you continue to harbor up wicked schemes within you?

Matthew 23:25

“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.

Matthew 23:26

Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

Matthew 27:24

When Pilate saw that he could do nothing, but that instead a riot was starting, he took some water, washed his hands before the crowd and said, “I am innocent of this man’s blood. You take care of it yourselves!”

Mark 7:8

Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”

John 2:6

Now there were six stone water jars there for Jewish ceremonial washing, each holding twenty or thirty gallons.

John 3:25

Now a dispute came about between some of John’s disciples and a certain Jew concerning ceremonial washing.

Hebrews 9:10

They served only for matters of food and drink and various washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.

James 4:8

Draw near to God and he will draw near to you. Cleanse your hands, you sinners, and make your hearts pure, you double-minded.

1 John 1:7

But if we walk in the light as he himself is in the light, we have fellowship with one another and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin.