Mark 7:15

There is nothing without a man coming into him, which is competent to defile him: but those things coming out from him, these are the things which defile the man.

1902 William Baxter Godbey 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 calling the crowd to Him again, He said to them, Hear all ye, and understand.

16If any one has ears to hear, let him hear.

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Cross References

Matthew 12:34O ye generations of vipers, how are you, being evil, able to speak good things? for out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

Mark 7:18And He says to them, Are you still without understanding? Do you not know that everything external entering into a man is not able to defile him?

Acts 10:28and he said to them, You know how it is an unlawful thing for a Jewish man to associate with, or come to one of another nation; and God has shown me not to call any man unconsecrated or unclean.

Acts 15:20but to command them to abstain from things offered to idols, and from fornication, and from strangulation, and from blood.

1 Corinthians 10:25Eat everything which is sold in market, asking no questions on account 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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