Mark 7:9 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

He added, "You have no trouble rejecting the commandments of God in order to keep your own traditions!(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

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

ASV:

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

BBE:

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

DBY:

And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep.

ERV:

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

WEY:

"Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!

WBS:

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

WEB:

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

YLT:

And he said to them, 'Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep;

Mark 7:9 Cross References

XREF:

Mark 7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thus observing the traditions of the elders;

Mark 7:5 The Pharisees and the scribes asked Him, "Why do Your disciples not walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with impure hands?"

Galatians 1:14 and I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my contemporaries among my countrymen, being more extremely zealous for my ancestral traditions. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

7:9 {5} And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.
(5) True religion, which is completely contrary to superstition, consists in spiritual worship: and all enemies of true religion, although they seem to have taken deep root, will be plucked up.

MHC:

7:1-13 One great design of Christ's coming was, to set aside the ceremonial law; and to make way for this, he rejects the ceremonies men added to the law of God's making. Those clean hands and that pure heart which Christ bestows on his disciples, and requires of them, are very different from the outward and superstitious forms of Pharisees of every age. Jesus reproves them for rejecting the commandment of God. It is clear that it is the duty of children, if their parents are poor, to relieve them as far as they are able; and if children deserve to die that curse their parents, much more those that starve them. But if a man conformed to the traditions of the Pharisees, they found a device to free him from the claim of this duty.

CONC:

Added Aside Command Commandment Commands Delivered Experts Fine Full God's Handed Indeed Law Nought Observe Order Praiseworthy Reject Rejecting Rules Saying Setting Tradition Traditions Truly Yourselves

Added Command Commandment Commands Delivered Experts Fine Full God's Handed Indeed Law Nought Observe Order Praiseworthy Reject Rejecting Rules Setting Side Tradition Traditions Way Yourselves

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