KJV King James Version
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
VERSE STUDY • KJV
Mark 7:13
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Read it in 5 translations
BSB Berean Standard Bible
Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
WEB World English Bible
making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
ASV American Standard Version
making void the word of God by your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things ye do.
YLT Young’s Literal Translation
setting aside the word of God for your tradition that ye delivered; and many such like things ye do.’
Surrounding context — Mark 7
10 For Moses said, Honour thy father and thy mother; and, Whoso curseth father or mother, let him die the death:
11 But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, [It is] Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; [he shall be free].
12 And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
13 Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
14 And when he had called all the people [unto him], he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one [of you], and understand:
15 There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
16 If any man have ears to hear, let him hear.
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These Hebrew/Greek tokens are linked by Strong's number. Click one for its lexicon definition and other occurrences.
ἀκυροῦντεςG208 · akuroōto nullifyτὸνG3588 · hothe/this/whoλόγονG3056 · logoswordτοῦG3588 · hothe/this/whoθεοῦG2316 · theosGodτῇG3588 · hothe/this/whoπαραδόσειG3862 · paradosistraditionὑμῶνG4771 · suyouᾗG3739 · hos, hēwhichπαρεδώκατε·G3860 · paradidōmito deliverκαὶG2532 · kaiandπαρόμοιαG3946 · paromoioslikeτοιαῦταG5108 · toioutossuch as thisπολλὰG4183 · polusmuchποιεῖτε.¶G4160 · poieōto do/make: do
Cross-references
Mark 7:9And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.Titus 1:14Not giving heed to Jewish fables, and commandments of men, that turn from the truth.Matthew 5:17-20Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.Isaiah 8:20To the law and to the testimony: if they speak not according to this word, [it is] because [there is] no light in them.Matthew 15:6And honour not his father or his mother, [he shall be free]. Thus have ye made the commandment of God of none effect by your tradition.Jeremiah 8:8-9How do ye say, We [are] wise, and the law of the LORD [is] with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he [it]; the pen of the scribes [is] in vain.Hosea 8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, [but] they were counted as a strange thing.Mark 7:3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash [their] hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.Ezekiel 18:14Now, lo, [if] he beget a son, that seeth all his father’s sins which he hath done, and considereth, and doeth not such like,Galatians 5:21Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told [you] in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
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