Mark 7:9
And he sayd vnto them, Well, ye reiect the commandement of God, that ye may obserue your owne tradition.
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Psalms 119:126It is time for thee Lord to worke: for they haue destroyed thy Lawe.
Isaiah 29:13Therefore the Lord sayd, Because this people come neere vnto me with their mouth, and honour me with their lips, but haue remooued their heart farre from me, and their feare toward me was taught by the precept of men,
Daniel 7:25And shall speake wordes against the most High, and shall consume the Saintes of the most High, and thinke that he may change times and lawes, and they shalbe giuen into his hand, vntill a time, and times and the deuiding of time.
Matthew 15:3But he answered and said vnto them, Why doe yee also transgresse the commandement of God by your tradition?
Mark 7:13Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.
Galatians 2:21I doe not abrogate the grace of God: for if righteousnes be by the Lawe, then Christ dyed without a cause.
Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24
The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →