Mark 7:5

New International Version

So the Pharisees and teachers of the law asked Jesus, “Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders instead of eating their food with defiled hands?”

Cross References

Matthew 15:2

“Why do your disciples break the tradition of the elders? They don’t wash their hands before they eat!”

Mark 7:13

Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 7:8

You have let go of the commands of God and are holding on to human traditions.”

Mark 7:9

And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

Acts 21:21

They have been informed that you teach all the Jews who live among the Gentiles to turn away from Moses, telling them not to circumcise their children or live according to our customs.

Acts 21:24

Take these men, join in their purification rites and pay their expenses, so that they can have their heads shaved. Then everyone will know there is no truth in these reports about you, but that you yourself are living in obedience to the law.

Romans 4:12

And he is then also the father of the circumcised who not only are circumcised but who also follow in the footsteps of the faith that our father Abraham had before he was circumcised.

Galatians 1:14

I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

2 Thessalonians 3:11

We hear that some among you are idle and disruptive. They are not busy; they are busybodies.

2 Thessalonians 3:6

In the name of the Lord Jesus Christ, we command you, brothers and sisters, to keep away from every believer who is idle and disruptive and does not live according to the teaching you received from us.