Mark 7:9 - Holy Bible: Easy-to-Read Version

⁹ Then he said, “You show great skill in avoiding the commands of God so that you can follow your own teachings!

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁹ 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)

⁹ And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

Common English Bible

⁹ Jesus continued, “Clearly, you are experts at rejecting God’s commandment in order to establish these rules.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁹ 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

⁹ And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

Mark 7:9 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 119:126

Lord, it is time for you to do something. The people do what is against your teachings.

Isaiah 24:5

The people have ruined the land. They did what God said was wrong. They did not obey God’s laws. They made an agreement with God a long time ago, but they broke their agreement with God.

Isaiah 29:13

The Lord says, “These people come to honor me with words, but I am not really important to them. The worship they give me is nothing but human rules they have memorized.

Daniel 11:36

“The northern king will do whatever he wants. He will brag about himself. He will praise himself and think that he is even better than a god. He will say things that no one has ever heard. He will say those things against the God of gods. He will be successful until all the evil things have happened. Then what God has planned to happen will happen.

Daniel 7:25

This special king will say things against God Most High, and he will hurt and kill God’s special people. That king will try to change the times and laws that have already been set. God’s holy people will be under that king’s power for three and one-half years.

Mark 7:13

So you are teaching that it is not important to do what God said. You think it is more important to follow those traditions you have, which you pass on to others. And you do many things like that.”

Mark 7:3

The Pharisees and all the other Jews never eat before washing their hands in this special way. They do this to follow the traditions they have from their great leaders who lived long ago.

Mark 7:5

The Pharisees and teachers of the law said to Jesus, “Your followers don’t follow the traditions we have from our great leaders who lived long ago. They eat their food with hands that are not clean. Why do they do this?”

Romans 3:31

So do we destroy the law by following the way of faith? Not at all! In fact, faith causes us to be what the law actually wants.

2 Corinthians 11:4

You seem to be quite patient with anyone who comes to you and tells you about a Jesus that is different from the Jesus we told you about. You seem very willing to accept a spirit or a message that is different from the Spirit and message that you received from us.

Galatians 1:14

I was becoming a leader in the Jewish religion. I did better than most other Jews my own age. I tried harder than anyone else to follow the traditions we got from our ancestors.

Galatians 2:21

I am not the one destroying the meaning of God’s grace. If following the law is how people are made right with God, then Christ did not have to die.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

He will stand against and put himself above everything that people worship or think is worthy of worship. He will even go into God’s Temple and sit there, claiming that he is God.