Mark 7:15

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him, but the things that come out of a person are what defile him.

Text-Critical English 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

14Then Jesus called over the entire crowd and said to them, “Listen to me, all of you, and understand:

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

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Cross References

Matthew 12:34You brood of vipers, how can you speak good things, when you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Mark 7:18He said to them, “So are you also without understanding? Do you not understand that whatever goes into a person from the outside cannot defile him?

Acts 10:28Peter said to them, “You know that it is forbidden for a Jewish man to keep company with or associate with a foreigner, but God has shown me that I should call no one defiled or unclean.

Acts 15:20but that we should write to them, telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols, from fornication, from what has been strangled, and from blood.

1 Corinthians 10:25Eat whatever is sold in the meat market, questioning nothing 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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