Mark 7:22
Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:
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21For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders,
23All these evil things come from within, and defile the man.
Cross References
Deuteronomy 28:54So that the man that is tender among you, and very delicate, his eye shall be evil toward his brother, and toward the wife of his bosom, and toward the remnant of his children which he shall leave:
1 Samuel 18:8And Saul was very angry, and the saying displeased him; and he said, They have ascribed unto David ten thousands, and to me they have ascribed but thousands: and what can he have more but the kingdom?
2 Chronicles 32:31Nevertheless in the business of the ambassadors of the princes of Babylon, who sent unto him to enquire of the wonder that was done in the land, God left him, to try him, that he might know all that was in his heart.
Proverbs 12:23A prudent man conceals knowledge: but the heart of fools proclaims foolishness.
Proverbs 23:6Eat you not the bread of him that has an evil eye, neither desire you his dainty meats:
Proverbs 27:22Though you should bray a fool in a mortar among wheat with a pestle, yet will not his foolishness depart from him.
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 →