Mark 7:21

American Standard Version with Strong's Numbers

For from within, out of the heart of men, evil thoughts proceed, fornications, thefts, murders, adulteries,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔσωθεν γάρ, ἐκ τῆς καρδίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἱ διαλογισμοὶ οἱ κακοὶ ἐκπορεύονται, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, φόνοι,

Transliteration

For from esōthen, from the kardias of anthrōpōn, the dialogismoi the kakoi ekporeuontai, moicheiai, porneiai, phonoi,

Grammar Details

• *esōthen*: adverb - from within/inside
• *kardias*: genitive, feminine, singular - heart
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men
• *dialogismoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - thoughts/reasonings
• *kakoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - evil/bad
• *ekporeuontai*: present middle, 3rd plural - proceed out/come forth
• *moicheiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - adulteries
• *porneiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - fornications/sexual immoralities
• *phonoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - murders

Word Meanings

• *esōthen*: from within/from inside/internally
• *kardias*: heart/mind/inner being
• *dialogismoi*: thoughts/reasonings/deliberations
• *kakoi*: evil/bad/harmful
• *moicheiai*: adulteries/marital unfaithfulness
• *porneiai*: sexual immoralities/fornications/prostitutions
• *phonoi*: murders/killings/slaughters

Referenced Verses

• Jas 4:1-3 : 1 Whence [come] wars and whence [come] fightings among you? [come they] not hence, [even] of your pleasures that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and covet, and cannot {G3756} obtain: ye fight and war; {G1161} ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may spend [it] in your pleasures.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are [these]: {G3430} fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, enmities, strife, jealousies, wraths, factions, divisions, parties, 21 envyings, {G5408} drunkenness, revellings, and such like; of which I forewarn you, even as I did {G2532} forewarn you, that they who practise such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and it is exceedingly corrupt: who can know it?
• Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh is enmity against God; for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can it be: 8 and they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thy heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thine evil thoughts lodge within thee?
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 that ye no longer should live the rest of your time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past {G979} may suffice {G2254} to have wrought the desire of the Gentiles, and to have walked in lasciviousness, lusts, winebibbings, revellings, carousings, and abominable idolatries:
• Jas 2:4 : 4 do ye not make distinctions among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray the Lord, if perhaps the thought of thy heart shall be forgiven thee.
• Matt 9:4 : 4 And Jesus knowing their thoughts said, Wherefore think ye evil in your hearts?
• Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, railings:
• Matt 23:25-28 : 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye cleanse the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full from extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and of the platter, that the outside thereof may become clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which outwardly appear beautiful, but inwardly are full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but inwardly ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they that justify yourselves in the sight of men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is exalted among men is an abomination in the sight of God.
• Acts 5:4 : 4 While it remained, did it not remain thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thy power? How is it that thou hast conceived this thing in thy heart? thou has not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions, which were through the law, wrought in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Rom 7:8 : 8 but sin, finding occasion, wrought in me through the commandment all manner of coveting: for apart from the law sin [is] dead.
• Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus saith the Lord Jehovah: It shall come to pass in that day, that things shall come into thy mind, and thou shalt devise an evil device:
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah saw that the wickedness of man was great in the earth, and that every imagination of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
• Gen 8:21 : 21 And Jehovah smelled the sweet savor; and Jehovah said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake, for that the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more everything living, as I have done.
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he should be clean? And he that is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his holy ones; Yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight: 16 How much less one that is abominable and corrupt, A man that drinketh iniquity like water!
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be just with God? Or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Ps 14:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician. [A Psalm] of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, they have done abominable works; There is none that doeth good.
• Ps 14:3 : 3 They are all gone aside; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 53:1 : 1 For the Chief Musician; set to Mahalath. Maschil of David. The fool hath said in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt are they, and have done abominable iniquity; There is none that doeth good.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them is gone back; They are together become filthy; There is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Nay, in heart ye work wickedness; Ye weigh out the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged from the womb: They go astray as soon as they are born, speaking lies.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; For out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 15:25 : 25 Jehovah will root up the house of the proud; But he will establish the border of the widow.
• Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; desolation and destruction are in their paths.
• Jas 1:14-15 : 14 but each man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then the lust, when it hath conceived, beareth sin: and the sin, when it is fullgrown, bringeth forth death.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we also once were foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, hating one another.