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The Tradition of the Elders

Mark 7:13

In 9 translations

BSB
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
KJV
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
WEB
making void the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
ASV
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
LSV
setting aside the word of God for your tradition that you delivered; and many such like things you do.”
YLT
setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.'
DBY
making void the word of God by your traditional teaching which ye have delivered; and many such like things ye do.Elohim
DRC
Making void the word of God by your own tradition, which you have given forth. And many other such like things you do.
GNV
Making the worde of God of none authoritie, by your tradition which ye haue ordeined: and ye doe many such like things.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἀκυροῦντες τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παραδόσει ὑμῶν ᾗ παρεδώκατε· καὶ παρόμοια τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ποιεῖτε.
RP2018
ἀκυροῦντες τὸν λόγον τοῦ θεοῦ τῇ παραδόσει ὑμῶν ᾗ παρεδώκατε· καὶ παρόμοια τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ποιεῖτε.
TR-Boyd
ἀκυροῦντες τὸν λόγον τοῦ Θεοῦ τῇ παραδόσει ὑμῶν ᾗ παρεδώκατε· καὶ παρόμοια τοιαῦτα πολλὰ ποιεῖτε.
SCR1894
ακυρουντες τον λογον του θεου τη παραδοσει υμων η παρεδωκατε και παρομοια τοιαυτα πολλα ποιειτε

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Cross-references most cited first

  • Mark 7:9He went on to say, “You neatly set aside the command of God to maintain your own tradition.
  • Titus 1:14and will pay no attention to Jewish myths or to the commands of men who have rejected the truth.
  • Matthew 5:17–20Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets. I have not come to abolish them, but to fulfill them. For I tell you truly, until heaven and earth pass away, not a single jot, not a stroke of a pen,…
  • Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony! If they do not speak according to this word, they have no light of dawn.
  • Matthew 15:6he need not honor his father or mother with it. Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.
  • Hosea 8:12Though I wrote for them the great things of My law, they regarded them as something strange.
  • Jeremiah 8:8–9How can you say, ‘We are wise, and the Law of the LORD is with us,’ when in fact the lying pen of the scribes has produced a deception? The wise will be put to shame; they will be dismayed and trapped. Since they have…
  • Mark 7:3Now in holding to the tradition of the elders, the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat until they wash their hands ceremonially.
  • Ezekiel 18:14Now suppose this son has a son who sees all the sins his father has committed, considers them, and does not do likewise:
  • Galatians 5:21and envy; drunkenness, orgies, and the like. I warn you, as I did before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.

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