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Mark 7:13

Twentieth Century New Testament 1904

In this way you nullify the words of God by your traditions, which you hand down; and you do many similar things."

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He is in no way bound to honor his father.' In this way you have nullified the words of God on account of your traditions.

Why, then you do not allow him to do anything further for his father or mother!

Then Jesus called the people to him again, and said: "Listen to me, all of you, and mark my words.

(For the Pharisees, and indeed all strict Jews, will not eat without first scrupulously washing their hands, holding in this to the traditions of their ancestors.

So the Pharisees and the Teachers of the Law asked Jesus this question--"How is it that your disciples do not follow the traditions of our ancestors, but eat their food with defiled hands?"

Wisely do you set aside God's commandments," he exclaimed, "to keep your own traditions!

And how, in my devotion to Judaism, I surpassed many of my contemporaries among my own people in my intense earnestness in upholding the traditions of my ancestors.

Feelings of envy, drunkenness, revelry, and the like. And I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who indulge in such things will have no place in the Kingdom of God.

and may pay no attention to Jewish legends, or to the directions of those who turn their backs upon the Truth.




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