The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.
Mark 7:9 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised He also said to them, ‘You have a fine way of invalidating God’s command in order to set up your tradition! Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition And He said to them, You have a fine way of rejecting [thus thwarting and nullifying and doing away with] the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition (your own human regulations)! American Standard Version (1901) And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition. Common English Bible Jesus continued, “Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God’s commandment in order to establish these rules. Catholic Public Domain Version And he said to them: "You effectively nullify the precept of God, so that you may observe your own tradition. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition. |
The earth is polluted by its inhabitants, for they have transgressed teachings, overstepped decrees, and broken the permanent covenant.
The Lord said: These people approach me with their speeches to honour me with lip-service, yet their hearts are far from me, and human rules direct their worship of me.
‘Then the king will do whatever he wants. He will exalt and magnify himself above every god, and he will say outrageous things against the God of gods. He will be successful until the time of wrath is completed, because what has been decreed will be accomplished.
He will speak words against the Most High and oppress the holy ones of the Most High. He will intend to change religious festivals and laws, and the holy ones will be handed over to him for a time, times, and half a time. ,
You nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many other similar things.’
(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, keeping the tradition of the elders.
So the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, ‘Why don’t your disciples live according to the tradition of the elders, instead of eating bread with ceremonially unclean hands? ’
Do we then nullify the law through faith? Absolutely not! On the contrary, we uphold the law.
For if a person comes and preaches another Jesus, whom we did not preach, or you receive a different spirit, which you had not received, or a different gospel, which you had not accepted, you put up with it splendidly!
I advanced in Judaism beyond many contemporaries among my people, because I was extremely zealous for the traditions of my ancestors.
I do not set aside the grace of God, for if righteousness comes through the law, then Christ died for nothing.
He opposes and exalts himself above every so-called god or object of worship, so that he sits in God’s temple, proclaiming that he himself is God.