Mark 7:21

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For from within, out of the human heart, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders,

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  • Jas 4:1-3 : 1 What causes fights and quarrels among you? Don’t they come from your desires that battle within your body parts? 2 You desire but do not have, so you kill. You covet but cannot get what you want, so you quarrel and fight. You do not have because you do not ask God. 3 When you ask, you do not receive, because you ask with wrong motives, that you may spend what you get on your pleasures.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, debauchery, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hostilities, strife, jealousy, outbursts of anger, selfish ambitions, dissensions, factions, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, carousing, and things like these. I warn you, as I warned you before, that those who practice such things will not inherit the kingdom of God.
  • Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things and incurable—who can understand it?
  • Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the mindset of the flesh is hostile to God, for it does not submit to God's law, nor can it do so. 8 Those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash the evil from your heart, O Jerusalem, so that you may be saved. How long will your wicked thoughts lodge within you?
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 As a result, you should no longer live the rest of your earthly life for human desires but instead for the will of God. 3 For you have already spent enough time in the past doing what the Gentiles choose to do, living in debauchery, lust, drunkenness, orgies, carousing, and detestable idolatry.
  • Jas 2:4 : 4 have you not discriminated among yourselves and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent of this wickedness of yours, and pray to the Lord. Perhaps he will forgive you for having such thoughts in your heart.
  • Matt 9:4 : 4 But Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, 'Why do you think evil in your hearts?'
  • Matt 15:19 : 19 For out of the heart come evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, sexual immoralities, thefts, false testimonies, and slanders.
  • Matt 23:25-28 : 25 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence. 26 Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup and the dish, so that the outside may also become clean. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside but inside are full of the bones of the dead and all impurity. 28 So too, on the outside you appear righteous to people, but on the inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 Jesus said to them, "You are the ones who justify yourselves in the eyes of others, but God knows your hearts. What people value highly is detestable in God’s sight."
  • Acts 5:4 : 4 'Did it not remain yours while it was unsold? And after it was sold, was it not under your control? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to people, but to God.'
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the sinful passions aroused by the law were at work in our bodies, bearing fruit for death.
  • Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, seizing the opportunity provided by the commandment, produced in me every kind of coveting. For apart from the law, sin was dead.
  • Ezek 38:10 : 10 This is what the Lord GOD says: On that day, thoughts will arise in your heart, and you will devise an evil plan.
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 The Lord saw how great the wickedness of humanity had become on the earth, and that every intention of the thoughts of their heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 The LORD smelled the pleasing aroma and said in His heart, "Never again will I curse the ground because of humans, even though every inclination of the human heart is evil from childhood. Nor will I ever again destroy all living creatures, as I have done.
  • Job 14:4 : 4 Who can bring what is pure out of the unclean? No one.
  • Job 15:14-16 : 14 What is man, that he could be pure, or one born of a woman, that he could be righteous? 15 Behold, God puts no trust in His holy ones, and even the heavens are not pure in His sight. 16 How much less is a man, who is detestable and corrupt, one who drinks iniquity like water!
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can a mortal be righteous before God? How can one born of a woman be pure?
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 To the director. Of David. The fool says in his heart, 'There is no God.' They are corrupt and commit abominable deeds; there is no one who does good.
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all turned aside; together they have become corrupt. There is no one who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 53:1 : 1 For the director, according to Mahalath. A contemplative psalm of David.
  • Ps 53:3 : 3 God looks down from heaven upon the children of men to see if there is anyone who understands, anyone who seeks after God.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Do you rulers truly speak justice? Do you judge people with fairness? 3 No, in your hearts you devise injustice; your hands mete out violence on the earth.
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Above all else, guard your heart, for everything you do flows from it.
  • Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD tears down the house of the proud, but He secures the boundary of the widow.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to do evil, and they are quick to shed innocent blood. Their thoughts are sinful; ruin and destruction are in their paths.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each person is tempted when they are drawn away and enticed by their own desire. 15 Then, after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and when sin is fully grown, it gives birth to death.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were once foolish, disobedient, led astray, slaves to various passions and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hated by others and hating one another.

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