Mark 7:22
thefts, avarice, wickedness, deceitfulness, homosexuality, an evil eye, blasphemy, self-exaltation, foolishness.
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In The King James Version
In Context
21For from within, from the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
23All these evils proceed from within and pollute a man.”
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:54The man who is pampered and very self-indulgent among you will vie with his own brother, and with the wife who lies at his bosom,
1 Samuel 18:8Then Saul became exceedingly angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes. And he said: “They have given David ten thousand, and to me they gave only one thousand. What is left for him, except the kingdom itself?”
2 Chronicles 32:31Yet still, concerning the legates from the leaders of Babylon, who had been sent to him so that they might inquire about the portent which had happened upon the earth, God permitted him to be tempted, so that everything might be made known which was in his heart.
Proverbs 12:23A resourceful man conceals knowledge. And the heart of the unwise provokes foolishness.
Proverbs 23:6Do not eat with an envious man, and do not desire his foods.
Proverbs 27:22Even if you were to crush the foolish with a mortar, as when a pestle strikes over pearled barley, his foolishness would not be taken 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 →