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THE NEW TESTAMENT - verse by verse

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(NASB) Mark 7:3 (For the Pharisees and all the other Jews do not eat unless they carefully wash their hands, thereby holding firmly to the tradition of the elders;
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:4 and when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they completely cleanse themselves; and there are many other things which they have received as traditions to firmly hold, such as the washing of cups, pitchers, and copper pots.)
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:5 And the Pharisees and the scribes *asked Him, “Why do Your disciples not walk in accordance with the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unholy hands?”
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:6 But He said to them, “Rightly did Isaiah prophesy about you hypocrites, as it is written:
‘This people honors Me with their lips,
But their heart is far away from Me.
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:10 For Moses said, ‘Honor your father and your mother’; and, ‘The one who speaks evil of father or mother, is certainly to be put to death’;
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:11 but you say, ‘If a person says to his father or his mother, whatever I have that would help you is Corban (that is, given to God),’
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:15 there is nothing outside the person which can defile him if it goes into him; but the things which come out of the person are what defile the person.”
 
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(NASB) Mark 7:18 And He *said to them, “Are you so lacking in understanding as well? Do you not understand that whatever goes into the person from outside cannot defile him,
 
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