Parallel Verses

The Emphasized Bible

And he was saying to them - Well, do ye set aside the commandment of God, that, your own tradition, ye may observe;

New American Standard Bible

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

King James Version

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

Holman Bible

He also said to them, “You completely invalidate God’s command in order to maintain your tradition!

International Standard Version

Then he told them, "You have such a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your own tradition!

A Conservative Version

And he said to them, Well do ye reject the commandment of God, so that ye may keep your tradition.

American Standard Version

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

Amplified

He was also saying to them, “You are experts at setting aside and nullifying the commandment of God in order to keep your [man-made] tradition and regulations.

An Understandable Version

And He said to them, "You are good at rejecting the commandment of God so you can keep your traditions.

Anderson New Testament

And he said to them: Well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your own tradition.

Bible in Basic English

And he said to them, Truly you put on one side the law of God, so that you may keep the rules which have been handed down to you.

Common New Testament

And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God, in order to keep your tradition!

Daniel Mace New Testament

You are in the right, said he, to abolish the laws of God, to make way for such traditions.

Darby Translation

And he said to them, Well do ye set aside the commandment of God, that ye may observe what is delivered by yourselves to keep.

Godbey New Testament

And He said to them, Truly, you make void the commandment of God, that you may hold your own tradition.

Goodspeed New Testament

"How skilful you are," he said to them, "in nullifying what God has commanded in order to observe what has been handed down to you.

John Wesley New Testament

And he said to them, Full well ye abolish the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.

Julia Smith Translation

And he said to them, Well do ye abrogate the command of God, that ye might keep your tradition.

King James 2000

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

Lexham Expanded Bible

And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can keep your tradition.

Modern King James verseion

And He said to them, Do you do well to set aside the commandment of God, so that you may keep your own tradition?

Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale

And he said unto them, "Well, ye cast aside the commandment of God, to maintain your own traditions.

Moffatt New Testament

Yes, forsooth," he added, "you set aside what God commands, so as to maintain your own tradition.

Montgomery New Testament

"It is praiseworthy, is it," he exclaimed, "to reject the command of God that you may keep your tradition!

NET Bible

He also said to them, "You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up your tradition.

New Heart English Bible

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Noyes New Testament

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

Sawyer New Testament

And he said to them, Well do you reject the commandment of God, to keep your tradition;

Thomas Haweis New Testament

And he said to them, Strangely do ye make void the command of God, that ye may observe your tradition.

Twentieth Century New Testament

Wisely do you set aside God's commandments," he exclaimed, "to keep your own traditions!

Webster

And he said to them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition,

Weymouth New Testament

"Praiseworthy indeed!" He added, "to set at nought God's Commandment in order to observe your own traditions!

Williams New Testament

you cling to what men hand down. You are fine teachers to cancel what God commanded, in order to keep what men have handed down!

World English Bible

He said to them, "Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Worrell New Testament

And He said to them, "Well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may hold your tradition!

Worsley New Testament

And ye expressly annul the commandment of God, that ye may retain your own tradition;

Youngs Literal Translation

And he said to them, 'Well do ye put away the command of God that your tradition ye may keep;

Interlinear

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
And

and, also, even, both, then, so, likewise, not tr., , vr and
Usage: 0

he said
λέγω 
Lego 
Usage: 1045


Usage: 0

καλῶς 
Kalos 
Usage: 26

ye reject
ἀθετέω 
Atheteo 
Usage: 10

ἐντολή 
Entole 
Usage: 47

of God
θεός 
theos 
Usage: 1151

ἵνα 
Hina 
that, to,
Usage: 472

ye may keep
τηρέω 
Tereo 
Usage: 49

ὑμῶν 
Humon 
your, you, ye, yours, not tr.,
Usage: 371

References

Context Readings

Human Traditions And God's Commandments

8 Having, dismissed, the commandment, of God, ye, hold fast, the tradition, of men. 9 And he was saying to them - Well, do ye set aside the commandment of God, that, your own tradition, ye may observe; 10 For, Moses, said - Honour thy father and thy mother, and - He that revileth father or mother, let him, surely die, -


Cross References

Mark 7:13

cancelling the word of God by your tradition which ye have delivered. And, many such similar things, are ye doing!

Galatians 2:21

I do not set aside the favour of God; for, if, through law, is righteousness, then, Christ, without cause, died.

2 Kings 16:10-16

So then King Ahaz went to meet Tiglath-pileser king of Assyria, in Damascus, and saw the altar which was in Damascus, - and King Ahaz, sent unto Urijah the priest, a likeness of the altar, and a model thereof, according to all the workmanship thereof;

Psalm 119:126

It is time that Yahweh should work, They have frustrated thy law!

Isaiah 24:5

Yea the earth itself is profaned under them who dwell therein, - For they have Set aside laws, Gone beyond statute, Broken an age-abiding covenant.

Isaiah 29:13

Wherefore My Lord hath said, - Because this people, hath drawn near with their mouth, And with their lips, have honoured me, But their heart, have they moved far from me, And so their reverence of me hath become A commandment of men in which they have been schooled,

Jeremiah 44:16-17

As touching the word which thou hast spoken unto us, in the name of Yahweh we are not going to hearken unto thee;

Daniel 7:25

and, words against the Most High, will he speak, and, the holy ones of the Highest, will he afflict, - and will hope to change times and law, and they will be given into his hand, for a season and seasons and the dividing of a season,

Daniel 11:36

And the king, will do according to his own pleasure, and will exalt himself, and magnify himself against every GOD, yea, against the GOD of GODS, will he speak wonderful things, - and will succeed, until exhausted is the indignation, for, what is decreed, must be done;

Matthew 15:3-6

But, he, answering, said unto them - Wherefore do, ye also, transgress the commandment of God for the sake of your tradition?

Mark 7:3

For, the Pharisees, and all the Jews, unless with care they wash their hands, eat not, holding fast the tradition of the elders;

Romans 3:31

Do we then make, law, void through means of our faith? Far be it! On the contrary, law, we do establish!

2 Thessalonians 2:4

The one who opposeth and exalteth himself on high against every one called God, or an object of worship; so that he, within the sanctuary of God, shall take his seat, showeth himself forth, that he is, God: -

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