Mark 7:15

There is nothing outside a man that can defile him by going into him; rather, the things that come out of him, those are the ones that defile him.

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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

14Upon summoning the larger crowd He said to them: “Hear me, everyone, 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 malignant, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Mark 7:18So He said to them: “Can you really be without understanding? Don't you perceive that nothing that enters a man from outside can defile him,

Acts 10:28Then he said to them: “You know how it is unlawful for a Jewish man to associate with or to approach a different race; but God has shown me that I should not call any man ‘common’ or unclean.

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

1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is being sold in the meat market, asking no question for the sake of conscience;

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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