NEW TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Mark 7:7

World English Bible Updated

They worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

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THE SURROUNDING PASSAGE

Mark 7:7 in context

Mark 7:4–10

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They don’t eat when they come from the marketplace unless they bathe themselves, and there are many other things which they have received to hold to: washings of cups, pitchers, bronze vessels, and couches.)

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The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

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He answered them, “Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,

‘This people honors me with their lips,

but their heart is far from me.

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They worship me in vain,

teaching as doctrines the commandments of men.’

8

“For you set aside the commandment of God, and hold tightly to the tradition of men—the washing of pitchers and cups, and you do many other such things.”

9

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

10

For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother;’ and, ‘He who speaks evil of father or mother, let him be put to death.’

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  1. Isaiah 29:13

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