Mark 7:15
there is nothing from outside the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.
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In Context
14And having called near all the multitude, He said to them, “Listen to Me, you all, and understand;
16[[If any has ears to hear—let him hear.”]]
Cross References
Leviticus 11:42anything going on the belly, and any going on four, to every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth—you do not eat them, for they [are] an abomination;
Matthew 12:34Brood of vipers! How are you able to speak good things—being evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.
Mark 7:18and He says to them, “So also you are without understanding! Do you not perceive that nothing from outside entering into the man is able to defile him?
Acts 10:28And he said to them, “You know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come to, one of another race, but God showed to me to call no man common or unclean;
Acts 15:20but to write to them to abstain from the defilements of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing, and the blood;
1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is sold in the meat-market, not inquiring, because of the 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 →