World English Bible
Mark 7:9
βHe said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.β
Verse in context β Mark 7
7
But in vain do they worship me, 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.
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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.
11
But you say, 'If a man tells his father or his mother, "Whatever profit you might have received from me is Corban, that is to say, given to God;
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