Matthew 15:19
For out of the heart come euil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false testimonies, slaunders.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
In Context
18But those thinges which proceede out of the mouth, come from the heart, and they defile the man.
20These are the things, which defile the man: but to eat with vnwashen hands, defileth not ye man.
Cross References
Genesis 6:5When the Lord sawe that the wickednesse of man was great in the earth, and all the imaginations of the thoughtes of his heart were onely euill continually,
Psalms 119:113SAMECH. I hate vaine inuentions: but thy Lawe doe I loue.
Proverbs 6:14Lewde things are in his heart: he imagineth euill at all times, and raiseth vp contentions.
Proverbs 24:9The wicked thought of a foole is sinne, and the scorner is an abomination vnto men.
Isaiah 59:7Their feete runne to euill, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are wicked thoughts: desolation and destruction is in their paths.
Jeremiah 17:9The heart is deceitfull and wicked aboue all things, who can knowe it?
Matthew Henry on Matthew 15:11-21
What Defileth a Man. 10 And he called the multitude, and said unto them, Hear, and understand: 11 Not that which goeth into the mouth defileth a man; but that which cometh out of the mouth, this defileth a man. 12 Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying? 13 But he answered and said, Every plant, which my heavenly Father hath not planted, shall be rooted up. 14 Let them alone: they be blind leaders of the blind. And if the blind lead… Read the whole commentary →