Mark 7:21
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner, 1752)
In The King James Version
For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
In Context
20But he said that the things which come out from a man, they defile a man.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5And God seeing that the wickedness of men was great on the earth, and that all the thought of their heart was bent upon evil at all times,
Job 14:4Who can make him clean that is conceived of unclean seed? is it not thou who only art?
Job 25:4Can man be justified compared with God, or he that is born of a woman appear clean?
Psalms 14:3He that speaketh truth in his heart, who hath not used deceit in his tongue: Nor hath done evil to his neighbour: nor taken up a reproach against his neighbours.
Psalms 53:3Save me, O God, by thy name, and judge me in thy strength.
Proverbs 4:23With all watchfulness keep thy heart, because life issueth out from it.
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 →