Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
Mark 7:13 - New International Version (Anglicised) Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like that.’ Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Thus you are nullifying and making void and of no effect [the authority of] the Word of God through your tradition, which you [in turn] hand on. And many things of this kind you are doing. American Standard Version (1901) making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do. Common English Bible In this way you do away with God’s word in favor of the rules handed down to you, which you pass on to others. And you do a lot of other things just like that.” Catholic Public Domain Version rescinding the word of God through your tradition, which you have handed down. And you do many other similar things in this way." Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do. |
Consult God’s instruction and the testimony of warning. If anyone does not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
‘But suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father commits, and though he sees them, he does not do such things:
I wrote for them the many things of my law, but they regarded them as something foreign.
they are not to “honour their father or mother” with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
Again Jesus called the crowd to him and said, ‘Listen to me, everyone, and understand this.
(The Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they give their hands a ceremonial washing, holding to the tradition of the elders.
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?’
And he continued, ‘You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!
I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people and was extremely zealous for the traditions of my fathers.
and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who live like this will not inherit the kingdom of God.
and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the merely human commands of those who reject the truth.