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

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And he continued, “You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe[a] your own traditions!(A)

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  1. Mark 7:9 Some manuscripts set up

Beware lest any man spoil you through philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the rudiments of the world, and not after Christ.

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See to it that no one takes you captive through hollow and deceptive philosophy,(A) which depends on human tradition and the elemental spiritual forces[a] of this world(B) rather than on Christ.

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Footnotes

  1. Colossians 2:8 Or the basic principles; also in verse 20