Mark 7:9 Cross References - AUV

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

Matthew 15:3-6

3 And He answered them, “Why do you also violate the commandments of God by [following] your traditions? 4 For God said, [Ex. 20:12], ‘Give honor to your father and mother.’ and [Ex. 21:17], ‘Whoever says bad things about his father or mother should surely be put to death.’ 5 But you say, ‘Whoever says to his father or mother, I have given to God the money I could have helped you with;’ 6 this person does not honor his father [or mother]. You have made God’s message useless by [thus enforcing] your traditions.

Mark 7:3

3 (For the Pharisees and all the Jews would not eat anything unless they first scrubbed their hands [i.e., up to the wrists] in accordance with the [long-established] tradition of the Jewish elders).

Mark 7:13

13 You are making God’s message useless by [enforcing] the tradition you have been following. And you do many things like that.”

Romans 3:31

31 Do we then [intend to] destroy law [observance] because faith [in Christ is now required]? Certainly not! But [instead], we uphold [the validity of] law.

Galatians 2:21

21 [In doing this] I am not trying to disregard God’s unearned favor, for if a person could become right with God by [perfect obedience to the requirements of] the law of Moses, then Christ died for nothing.

2 Thessalonians 2:4

4 [for] he opposes [the true Gospel message] and exalts himself against everything that is called “God” or that which is worshiped. So, he sits in God’s temple [i.e., the church ?] displaying himself as [though he were] God.

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