Mark 7:9

New Testament Gospel ASV (1901)

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

Mark 7:9 — American Standard Version

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Context — Mark 7

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6And he said unto them, Well did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honoreth me with their lips, But their heart is far from me.

7But in vain do they worship me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the precepts of men.

8Ye leave the commandment of God, and hold fast the tradition of men.

9And he said unto them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your tradition.

10For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of father or mother, let him die the death:

11but ye say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban, that is to say, Given [to God];

12ye no longer suffer him to do aught for his father or his mother;

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