Mark 7:3

Timothy, guard that which is committed to you, turning away from the empty chatter and oppositions of what is falsely called knowledge,

Let no one deceive you with empty words. For because of these things, the wrath of God comes on the children of disobedience.

Don’t be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind, so that you may prove what is the good, well-pleasing, and perfect will of God.

for you were bought with a price. Therefore glorify God in your body and in your spirit, which are God’s.

If you died with Christ from the elements of the world, why, as though living in the world, do you subject yourselves to ordinances,

So we also, when we were children, were held in bondage under the elemental principles of the world.

“Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly are ravening wolves.

When the Pharisees saw it, they said to his disciples, “Why does your teacher eat with tax collectors and sinners?”

They, when they heard it, glorified God. They said to him, “You see, brother, how many thousands there are among the Jews of those who have believed, and they are all zealous for the law.

But I am afraid that somehow, as the serpent deceived Eve in his craftiness, so your minds might be corrupted from the simplicity that is in Christ.

For Yahweh says, “You were sold for nothing; and you will be redeemed without money.”

I wrote for him the many things of my law; but they were regarded as a strange thing.

making void the word of God by your tradition, which you have handed down. You do many things like this.”

The Pharisees and the scribes murmured, saying, “This man welcomes sinners, and eats with them.”

And again, “The Lord knows the reasoning of the wise, that it is worthless.”

I advanced in the Jews’ religion beyond many of my own age among my countrymen, being more exceedingly zealous for the traditions of my fathers.

I don’t reject the grace of God. For if righteousness is through the law, then Christ died for nothing!”

But now that you have come to know God, or rather to be known by God, why do you turn back again to the weak and miserable elemental principles, to which you desire to be in bondage all over again?

(all of which perish with use), according to the precepts and doctrines of men?

not paying attention to Jewish fables and commandments of men who turn away from the truth.

who gave himself for us, that he might redeem us from all iniquity, and purify for himself a people for his own possession, zealous for good works.

But false prophets also arose among the people, as false teachers will also be among you, who will secretly bring in destructive heresies, denying even the Master who bought them, bringing on themselves swift destruction.

then beware lest you forget Yahweh, who brought you out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage.

Catch for us the foxes, the little foxes that plunder the vineyards; for our vineyards are in blossom.

Turn to the law and to the covenant! If they don’t speak according to this word, surely there is no morning for them.

who say, ‘Stay by yourself, don’t come near to me, for I am holier than you.’ These are smoke in my nose, a fire that burns all day.

but have walked after the stubbornness of their own heart and after the Baals, which their fathers taught them.”

For the customs of the peoples are vanity; for one cuts a tree out of the forest, the work of the hands of the workman with the ax.

It will happen, when they ask you, ‘Where shall we go out?’ then you shall tell them, ‘Yahweh says: “Such as are for death, to death; such as are for the sword, to the sword; such as are for the famine, to the famine; and such as are for captivity, to captivity.” ’

For Yahweh of Armies, the God of Israel says: “Don’t let your prophets who are among you and your diviners deceive you. Don’t listen to your dreams which you cause to be dreamed.

But we will certainly perform every word that has gone out of our mouth, to burn incense to the queen of the sky, and to pour out drink offerings to her, as we have done, we and our fathers, our kings and our princes, in the cities of Judah, and in the streets of Jerusalem; for then had we plenty of food, and were well, and saw no evil.

“Now, behold, if he fathers a son, who sees all his father’s sins, which he has done, and fears, and does not such like;

I said to their children in the wilderness, ‘Don’t walk in the statutes of your fathers. Don’t observe their ordinances or defile yourselves with their idols.

But beware of men: for they will deliver you up to councils, and in their synagogues they will scourge you.

“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat bread.”

he shall not honor his father or mother.’ You have made the commandment of God void because of your tradition.

Jesus answered them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

He said to them, “Full well do you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

Jesus, answering, began to tell them, “Be careful that no one leads you astray.

Some men came down from Judea and taught the brothers, “Unless you are circumcised after the custom of Moses, you can’t be saved.”

“I am indeed a Jew, born in Tarsus of Cilicia, but brought up in this city at the feet of Gamaliel, instructed according to the strict tradition of the law of our fathers, being zealous for God, even as you all are today.

A great clamor arose, and some of the scribes of the Pharisees’ part stood up, and contended, saying, “We find no evil in this man. But if a spirit or angel has spoken to him, let’s not fight against God!”

having known me from the first, if they are willing to testify, that after the strictest sect of our religion I lived a Pharisee.

“I myself most certainly thought that I ought to do many things contrary to the name of Jesus of Nazareth.

Because knowing God, they didn’t glorify him as God, and didn’t give thanks, but became vain in their reasoning, and their senseless heart was darkened.

Now I beg you, brothers, look out for those who are causing the divisions and occasions of stumbling, contrary to the doctrine which you learned, and turn away from them.

For such men are false apostles, deceitful workers, masquerading as Christ’s apostles.

who gave himself for our sins, that he might deliver us out of this present evil age, according to the will of our God and Father—

envy, murders, drunkenness, orgies, and things like these; of which I forewarn you, even as I also forewarned you, that those who practice such things will not inherit God’s Kingdom.

in which you once walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit who now works in the children of disobedience.

This I say therefore, and testify in the Lord, that you no longer walk as the rest of the Gentiles also walk, in the futility of their mind,

Beware of the dogs; beware of the evil workers; beware of the false circumcision.

Be careful that you don’t let anyone rob you through his philosophy and vain deceit, after the tradition of men, after the elements of the world, and not after Christ.

Let no one rob you of your prize by self-abasement and worshiping of the angels, dwelling in the things which he has not seen, vainly puffed up by his fleshly mind,

But evil men and impostors will grow worse and worse, deceiving and being deceived.

Don’t be carried away by various and strange teachings, for it is good that the heart be established by grace, not by food, through which those who were so occupied were not benefited.

whom, not having known, you love. In him, though now you don’t see him, yet believing, you rejoice greatly with joy that is unspeakable and full of glory,

You therefore, beloved, knowing these things beforehand, beware, lest being carried away with the error of the wicked, you fall from your own steadfastness.

Watch yourselves, that we don’t lose the things which we have accomplished, but that we receive a full reward.

King Ahaz went to Damascus to meet Tiglath Pileser king of Assyria, and saw the altar that was at Damascus; and king Ahaz sent to Urijah the priest a drawing of the altar and plans to build it.

none of them can by any means redeem his brother, nor give God a ransom for him.

The simple inherit folly, but the prudent are crowned with knowledge.

No lion will be there, nor will any ravenous animal go up on it. They will not be found there; but the redeemed will walk there.

Yahweh, my strength, and my stronghold, and my refuge in the day of affliction, the nations will come to you from the ends of the earth, and will say, “Our fathers have inherited nothing but lies, vanity and things in which there is no profit.

He will speak words against the Most High, and will wear out the saints of the Most High. He will plan to change the times and the law; and they will be given into his hand until a time and times and half a time.

Yahweh says: “For three transgressions of Judah, yes, for four, I will not turn away its punishment; because they have rejected Yahweh’s law, and have not kept his statutes, and their lies have led them astray, after which their fathers walked;

Don’t you be like your fathers, to whom the former prophets proclaimed, saying: Yahweh of Armies says, ‘Return now from your evil ways, and from your evil doings;’ but they didn’t hear, nor listen to me, says Yahweh.

The Pharisees and the scribes asked him, “Why don’t your disciples walk according to the tradition of the elders, but eat their bread with unwashed hands?”

Their scribes and the Pharisees murmured against his disciples, saying, “Why do you eat and drink with the tax collectors and sinners?”

Some of the Epicurean and Stoic philosophers also were conversing with him. Some said, “What does this babbler want to say?” Others said, “He seems to be advocating foreign deities,” because he preached Jesus and the resurrection.

You know that when you were heathen, you were led away to those mute idols, however you might be led.

that you put away, as concerning your former way of life, the old man that grows corrupt after the lusts of deceit,

knowing that you were redeemed, not with corruptible things, with silver or gold, from the useless way of life handed down from your fathers,