Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
Parallel translations
- WEB making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”
- BSB Thus you nullify the word of God by the tradition you have handed down. And you do so in many such matters.”
- NKJV making the word of God of no effect through your tradition which you have handed down. And many such things you do.”
- NASB thereby invalidating the word of God by your tradition which you have handed down; and you do many things such as that.”
- NLT And so you cancel the word of God in order to hand down your own tradition. And this is only one example among many others.”
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Quick answer
Jesus concluded that they nullify God's word by their tradition, doing many such things. It is a sweeping indictment of tradition that contradicts Scripture.
Overview
Jesus summarized the Corban example as one of many ways their tradition made void the word of God. The charge underscores the supreme authority of Scripture over every human invention. It calls believers in every age to ensure that traditions serve rather than supplant God's revealed will.
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- 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.
- Matt 5:17–20Think not that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil.
- Isa 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.
- Hos 8:12I have written to him the great things of my law, but they were counted as a strange thing.
- Jer 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.
- Matt 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.
- Mark 7:3For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders.
- Ezek 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,
- Gal 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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