Mark 7:8
Good News Translation
"You put aside God's command and obey human teachings."

New Revised Standard Version
You abandon the commandment of God and hold to human tradition.”

Contemporary English Version
You disobey God's commands in order to obey what humans have taught.

New American Bible
You disregard God’s commandment but cling to human tradition.”

Douay-Rheims Bible
For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these.

laying.

Isaiah 1:12 When you came to appear before me, who required these things at your hands, that you should walk in my courts?

the tradition.

Mark 7:3,4 For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients. . . .

Context
Tradition and Worship
7And in vain do they worship me, teaching doctrines and precepts of men. 8For leaving the commandment of God, you hold the tradition of men, the washing of pots and of cups: and many other things you do like to these. 9And he said to them: Well do you make void the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.…
Cross References
Mark 7:3
For the Pharisees and all the Jews eat not without often washing their hands, holding the tradition of the ancients.

Mark 7:4
And when they come from the market, unless they be washed, they eat not: and many other things there are that have been delivered to them to observe, the washings of cups and of pots and of brazen vessels and of beds.

Mark 7:5
And the Pharisees and scribes asked him: Why do not thy disciples walk according to the tradition of the ancients, but they eat bread with common hands?

Galatians 1:14
And I made progress in the Jew's religion above many of my equals in my own nation, being more abundantly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

Mark 7:7
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