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References Used in the Unitarian Standard Version
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Textual changes in favor of the newer Greek texts are underlined.
Mark 7
1 And there are gathered
together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes,
who had come from Jerusalem, 2 and had seen that some of his
disciples ate their bread with defiled, that is, unwashen,
hands. 3 (For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash
their hands with the fist, eat not, holding the
tradition of the elders; 4 and from the market-place,
except they bathe themselves, they eat not; and many other
things there are, which they have received to hold, washings
of cups, and pots, and brasen vessels [and beds].)
5 And the Pharisees and the scribes ask him, Why walk not thy
disciples according to the tradition of the elders, but eat
their bread with defiled hands? 6 And he said unto them, Well
did Isaiah prophesy of you hypocrites, as it is written,
This people honoreth me with
their lips, But their heart is far from me. 7 But in vain do
they worship(a) me, Teaching [as their] doctrines the
precepts of men.
8 Ye leave the commandment of
God, and hold fast the tradition of men. 9 And he said unto
them, Full well do ye reject the commandment of God, that ye
may establish your tradition. 10 For Moses said, Honor
thy father and thy mother; and, He that speaketh evil of
father or mother, let him die the death(b): 11 but ye
say, If a man shall say to his father or his mother, That
wherewith thou mightest have been profited by me is Corban,
that is to say, Given [to God]; 12 ye no longer suffer him to
do anything for his father or mother; 13 making void
the word of God by your tradition, which ye have handed down:
and many such like things ye do. 14 And he called to him the
multitude again, and said unto them, Hear me all of you, and
understand: 15 there is nothing from without the man, that
going into him can defile him; but the things which proceed out
of a man are what defile a man(c). 17 And when he
was entered into the house from the multitude, his disciples asked
him this parable. 18 And he saith unto them, Are ye so
without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever
from without goeth into the man, [it] cannot defile him; 19
because it goeth not into his heart, but into his belly, and
goeth out into the privy? [This he said], making all food
clean. 20 And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man,
that defileth the man. 21 For from within, out of the heart of
men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders,
adulteries, 22 covetings, wickedness, deceit, licentiousness,
an evil eye(d), slander, pride, foolishness: 23 all
these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.
24 And from thence he arose,
and went away into the borders of Tyre. And he entered
into a house, and would have no man know it; and he could not
be hid. 25 But straightway a woman, whose little daughter had
an unclean spirit, having heard of him, came and fell down at
his feet. 26 Now the woman was a Greek, a Syrophoenician by
race. And she besought him that he would cast forth the demon
out of her daughter. 27 And he said unto her, Let the children
first be filled: for it is not right to take the children`s
bread and cast it to the dogs. 28 But she answered and saith
unto him, Yea, Lord; even the dogs under the table eat of the
children`s crumbs. 29 And he said unto her, For this saying go
thy way; the demon is gone out of thy daughter. 30 And she
went away unto her house, and found the child laid upon the
bed, and the demon gone out.
31 And again he went out from
the borders of Tyre, and came through Sidon unto the sea of
Galilee, through the midst of the borders of Decapolis. 32 And
they bring unto him one that was deaf, and had an impediment
in his speech; and they beseech him to lay his hand upon him.
33 And he took him aside from the multitude privately, and put
his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his
tongue; 34 and looking up to heaven, he sighed, and saith unto
him, Ephphatha, that is, Be opened. 35 And [immediately]
his ears were opened, and the bond of his tongue was loosed,
and he spake plain. 36 And he charged them that they should
tell no man: but the more he charged them, so much the more a
great deal they published it. 37 And they were beyond measure
astonished, saying, He hath done all things well; he maketh
even the deaf to hear, and the dumb to speak.
Footnotes
Omitted verse: Mark 7:16 [If
any man hath ears to hear, let him hear.] Mark 7:16 is omitted from the main text in many modern Bible translations because it is missing from the oldest and most historically reliable Greek manuscripts.
(a) Worship, Greek: "sebomai." "For will
Trinitarians show me where, in the New Testament, either of
the two remaining terms, sebomai, and latreuo, both of which
express divine worship in the religious sense, -is applied to
Jesus Christ? if they cannot, and I know they cannot, it is an
argument of the greatest weight to prove, that Christ was
never regarded, by the writers of the New Testament, as the
object of religious worship. These two terms are frequently
applied to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, but
never to Christ himself. He is entitled to honour, praise, and
gratitude, but not to divine worship." ~Article in the Bible
Christian 1838, p.295
(b) Exodus
21:17 "And he that curseth his father or his mother, shall
surely be put to death." "Die the death" = "surely die"
(Bullinger)
(c) "Nothing that enters the man from without can
pollute him; but, on the contrary, that which comes out of
the man, that is what pollutes him." Fenton
(d) "The eye of the envious is wicked:
and he turneth away his face, and despiseth his own soul.
The eye of the covetous man is insatiable in his portion of
iniquity: he will not be satisfied till he consume his own
soul, drying it up. An evil eye is towards evil things: and
he shall not have his fill of bread, but shall be needy and
pensive at his own table." Sirach 14:8-10 Douay
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The Absurdity of the Trinity
Trinitarian doctrine is not designed to actually be sensible but to sound plausible. The above diagram illustrates what the doctrine really expresses. Like a man who tries to detect a how magician's illusion works, but is unable do so, most people are kept in just enough confusion that they are unable to detect how they are being tricked.
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