Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
21For from within out of the heart of men proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
23All these evil things come from within, and defile a man.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:54The man that is nice among you, and very delicate, shall envy his own brother, and his wife, that lieth in his bosom,
1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was exceeding angry, and this word was displeasing in his eyes, and he said: They have given David ten thousands, and to me they have given but a thousand; what can he have more but the kingdom?
2 Chronicles 32:31But yet in the embassy of the princes of Babylon, that were sent to him, to inquire of the wonder that had happened upon the earth, God left him that he might be tempted, and all things might be made known that were in his heart.
Proverbs 12:23A cautious man concealeth knowledge: and the heart of fools publisheth folly.
Proverbs 23:6Eat not with an envious man, and desire not his meats:
Proverbs 27:22Though thou shouldst bray a fool in the mortar, as when a pestle striketh upon sodden barley, his folly 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 →