King James Version
Mark 7:13 in the King James Version says “Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.” — study this verse from Mark chapter 7 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.”
Mark 7:13 · KJV
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Corban, that is to say, a gift, by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free.
And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother;
Making the word of God of none effect through your tradition, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye.
And when he had called all the people unto him, he said unto them, Hearken unto me every one of you, and understand:
There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.
KJV Study — Public Domain
“the word”
G3056something said (including the thought); by implication, a topic (subject of discourse), also reasoning (the mental faculty) or motive; by extension, a
“of God”
G2316a deity, especially (with g3588) the supreme divinity; figuratively, a magistrate; exceedingly (by hebraism)
“tradition”
G3862transmission, i.e., (concretely) a precept; specially, the jewish traditionary law
“and”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“many”
G4183(singular) much (in any respect) or (plural) many; neuter (singular) as adverbial, largely; neuter (plural) as adverb or noun often, mostly, largely
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