Mark 7:15

There is nothing from outside a man, that entering into him, can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are the things that defile a man.

English Majority Text (NT)

In The King James Version

There is nothing from without a man, that entering into him can defile him: but the things which come out of him, those are they that defile the man.

In Context

14And having summoned all the crowd, He said to them, “Hear Me, all of you and understand:

16If anyone has ears to hear, let him hear!”

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Cross References

Matthew 12:34Brood of vipers! How can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Mark 7:18So He said to them, “Are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that everything entering a man from outside cannot defile him,

Acts 10:28and he said to them, “You know how unlawful it is for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a Gentile; and yet God has shown to me that I should call no man common or unclean;

Acts 15:20but that we write to them to abstain from things polluted by idols, and from sexual immorality, from things strangled, and from blood.

1 Corinthians 10:25Eat everything being sold in the meat market, questioning nothing, for conscience' sake;

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 →

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