Mark 7:15
There is nothing outside the man, entering into him that can defile him, but the things coming out of him those are the things that defile the man.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
14And having summoned all the people, he said to them, Hear me all of you, and understand.
16If any man has ears to hear, let him hear.
Cross References
Leviticus 11:42Whatever goes upon the belly, and whatever goes upon all fours, or whatever has many feet, even all creeping things that creep upon the earth, them ye shall not eat, for they are an abomination.
Matthew 12:34Ye offspring of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Mark 7:18And he says to them, Are also ye so without understanding? Do ye not perceive that everything outside that enters into the man cannot defile him,
Acts 10:28And he said to them, Ye understand how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to fraternize or to visit with a foreign man, and yet God demonstrated to me not to call one man profane or unclean.
Acts 15:20but to write to them, to abstain from the pollutions of idols, and from fornication, and from what is strangled, and from blood.
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat everything being sold in a meat market, inquiring of nothing because of the conscience,
Matthew Henry on Mark 7:2-24
The Traditions of the Elders; The Worst Defilement from Within. 1 Then came together unto him the Pharisees, and certain of the scribes, which came from Jerusalem. 2 And when they saw some of his disciples eat bread with defiled, that is to say, with unwashen, hands, they found fault. 3 For the Pharisees, and all the Jews, except they wash their hands oft, eat not, holding the tradition of the elders. 4 And when they come from the market, except they wash, they eat not. And many other things there be, which they… Read the whole commentary →