He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up ¹  your tradition.

biblegateway Mar 7:9

He was also saying to them, "You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

He also said to them, "You completely invalidate God's command in order to maintain your tradition!

And he said to them, "You splendidly ignore the commandment of God so that you can maintain your tradition.

biblegateway Mar 7:9

And he said to them: "You have a fine way of setting aside the commands of God in order to observe your own traditions!

And he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to establish your tradition!

bibleoremus Mar 7:9

Then he said to them, "You have a fine way of rejecting the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition!

He said to them, “How clever you are at setting aside the commandment of God in order to maintain your tradition!

biblegateway Mar 7:9

He said to them, " All too well you reject the commandment of God, that you may keep your tradition.

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

biblegateway Mar 7:9

He also said to them, “You neatly reject the commandment of God in order to set up ¹  your tradition.

¹ tc The translation here follows the reading στήσητε (sthshte, “set up”) found in D W Θ Ë¹ 28 565 2542 it sy^s,p Cyp. The majority of mss here read τηρήσητε (thrhsete; א A L ˹³ 33 Ï co) or τηρῆτε (thrhte; B 2427), both translated “keep.” It is hard to know which reading is best: On the one hand, τηρήσητε/τηρῆτε has much stronger external support, but στήσητε is a more difficult reading. What makes “keep” suspect is that it appears in two different forms, suggesting independent alterations of a difficult reading. Further, scribes may have been influenced by the preceding “commandment of God” to change the text toward “keep” (TCGNT 81), a common enough expression (cf. Matt 19:17; John 14:15; 1 Tim 6:1; 1 John 5:3; Rev 14:12). Thus, the more difficult reading is “set up.” Also, the more natural opposite of “reject” (ἀθεῖτε [aqeite], literally “you set aside”) is “set up.” However, the Western reading may have been influenced by Exod 6:4 or Heb 10:9, but this likelihood seems remote. Thus, “set up” is more likely to be the original wording of Mark here.