Mark 7:5-8

Traditions and Commandments

5 And the Pharisees and the scribes asked him, "Why do your disciples not walk according to s the tradition of t the elders, w but eat with r defiled hands?"

6 And he said to them, "Well did Isaiah prophesy of you x hypocrites, as it is written,
y "'This people honors me with their lips,
but their heart is far from me;
 7 in vain do they worship me,
teaching as z doctrines the commandments of men.'

8 You leave the commandment of God and hold to the tradition of men."

  1. Cross References
    Mark 7:3
    (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.
  2. Cross References
    Mark 7:3
    (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they wash their hands, holding to the tradition of the elders.
  3. Cross References
    Luke 11:38
    The Pharisee was astonished to see that he did not first wash before dinner.
  4. Cross References
    Mark 7:2
    They saw that some of his disciples ate with hands that were defiled, that is, unwashed.
  5. Cross References
    Matthew 23:13
    But woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! For you shut the kingdom of heaven in people's faces. For you neither enter yourselves nor allow those who would enter to go in.
  6. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:13
    And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men.
    Ezekiel 33:31
    And they come to you as people come, and they sit before you as my people, and they hear what you say but they will not do it; for with lustful talk in their mouths they act; their heart is set on their gain.
  7. Cross References
    Isaiah 29:13
    And the Lord said: "Because this people draw near with their mouth and honor me with their lips, while their hearts are far from me, and their fear of me is a commandment taught by men.
  8. Cross References
    Colossians 2:22
    ( referring to things that all perish as they are used) - according to human precepts and teachings?
    Titus 1:14
    Not devoting themselves to Jewish myths and the commands of people who turn away from the truth.
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