Mark 7:20
18 “Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,
19 because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)
He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
21 For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
22 greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
- KJV
- And he said, That which cometh out of the man, that defileth the man.
- WEB
- He said, “That which proceeds out of the man, that defiles the man.
- ASV
- And he said, That which proceedeth out of the man, that defileth the man.
- DARBY
- And he said, That which goes forth out of the man, that defiles the man.
- BLB
- And He was saying, “That which is proceeding out of the man, that defiles the man.
- ÅB
- Men han sa: Det som går ut av mennesket, det er det som gjør mennesket urent.
- OTB
- Han fortsatte med å si, “Det som kommer ut av et menneske er det som gjør det urent.
- B1930
- Men han sa: Det som går ut av mennesket, det er det som gjør mennesket urent.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
James 3:6
The tongue also is a fire, a world of wickedness among the parts of the body. It pollutes the whole person, sets the course of his life on fire, and is itself set on fire by hell.
Read in contextJames 1:14–15
But each one is tempted when by his own evil desires he is lured away and enticed.
Read in contextJames 4:1
What causes conflicts and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from the passions at war within you?
Read in contextMark 7:15
Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him; but the things that come out of a man, these are what defile him.”
Read in contextMatthew 12:34–37
You brood of vipers, how can you who are evil say anything good? For out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks.
Read in contextPsalms 41:6
My visitor speaks falsehood; he gathers slander in his heart; he goes out and spreads it abroad.
Read in contextMicah 2:1
Woe to those who devise iniquity and plot evil on their beds! At morning’s light they accomplish it because the power is in their hands.
Read in contextHebrews 7:6
But Melchizedek, who did not trace his descent from Levi, collected a tenth from Abraham and blessed him who had the promises.
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