Mark 7:21

King James Version with Strong's Numbers

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

📖 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 From whence come wars and fightings among you? come they not hence, even of your lusts that war in your members? 2 Ye lust, and have not: ye kill, and desire to have, and cannot obtain: ye fight and war, yet ye have not, because ye ask not. 3 Ye ask, and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may consume it upon your lusts.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, heresies, 21 Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?
• Rom 8:7-8 : 7 Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not subject to the law of God, neither indeed can be. 8 So then they that are in the flesh cannot please God.
• Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash thine heart from wickedness, that thou mayest be saved. How long shall thy vain thoughts lodge within thee?
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 That he no longer should live the rest of his time in the flesh to the lusts of men, but to the will of God. 3 For the time past of our life may suffice us to have wrought the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in lasciviousness, lusts, excess of wine, revellings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
• Jas 2:4 : 4 Are ye not then partial in yourselves, and are become judges of evil thoughts?
• Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this thy wickedness, and pray God, if perhaps the thought of thine heart may 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 proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
• Matt 23:25-28 : 25 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye make clean the outside of the cup and of the platter, but within they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Thou blind Pharisee, cleanse first that which is within the cup and platter, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye are like unto whited sepulchres, which indeed appear beautiful outward, but are within full of dead men's bones, and of all uncleanness. 28 Even so ye also outwardly appear righteous unto men, but within ye are full of hypocrisy and iniquity.
• Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said unto them, Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
• Acts 5:4 : 4 Whiles it remained, was it not thine own? and after it was sold, was it not in thine own power? why hast thou conceived this thing in thine heart? thou hast not lied unto men, but unto God.
• Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the motions of sins, which were by the law, did work in our members to bring forth fruit unto death.
• Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, taking occasion by the commandment, wrought in me all manner of concupiscence. For without the law sin was dead.
• Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus saith the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time shall things come into thy mind, and thou shalt think an evil thought:
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And GOD 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 the LORD smelled a sweet savour; and the LORD said in his heart, I will not again curse the ground any more for man's sake; for the imagination of man's heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again smite any more every thing 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 which is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, he putteth no trust in his saints; yea, the heavens are not clean in his sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, which drinketh iniquity like water?
• Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be justified with God? or how can he be clean that is born of a woman?
• Ps 14:1 : 1 To 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 all together become filthy: there is none that doeth good, no, not one.
• Ps 53:1 : 1 To the chief Musician{H8764)} upon Mahalath, Maschil{H8688)}, A Psalm of David. The fool hath said{H8804)} in his heart, There is no God. Corrupt{H8689)} are they, and have done abominable{H8689)} iniquity: there is none that doeth{H8802)} good.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them is gone back{H8804)}: they are altogether become filthy{H8738)}; there is none that doeth{H8802)} good, no, not one.
• Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Yea, in heart ye work{H8799)} wickedness; ye weigh{H8762)} the violence of your hands in the earth. 3 The wicked are estranged{H8804)} from the womb: they go astray{H8804)} as soon as they be born, speaking{H8802)} lies.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Keep thy heart with all diligence; for out of it are the issues of life.
• Prov 15:25 : 25 The LORD will destroy 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; wasting and destruction are in their paths.
• Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away of his own lust, and enticed. 15 Then when lust hath conceived, it bringeth forth sin: and sin, when it is finished, bringeth forth death.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves also were sometimes foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving divers lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.