Mark 7:22
covetings, wickednesses, deceit, licentiousness, an evil eye, reviling, pride, foolishness.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
21For from inside the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts,
23All these evil things come from inside, and defile the man.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:54The man who is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his sons whom he has remaining,
1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was very angry, and this saying displeased him, and he said, They have ascribed to David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands, and what can he have more but the kingdom?
2 Chronicles 32:31However in [the business of] the ambassadors of the rulers of Babylon, who sent to him to inquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man conceals knowledge, but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
Proverbs 23:6Eat thou not the bread of an evil eye, nor desire thou his dainties.
Proverbs 27:22Though thou should pound a fool in a mortar with a pestle along with crushed grain, yet his foolishness will not depart from him.
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 →