Mark 7:21

KJV1611 – Modern English

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

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  • Jas 4:1-3 : 1 From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members? 2 You desire and do not have; you kill, and covet, and cannot obtain. You fight and war, yet you do not have because you do not ask. 3 You ask and do not receive because you ask wrongly, that you may spend it on your desires.
  • Gal 5:19-21 : 19 Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness, 20 idolatry, sorcery, hatred, contentions, jealousy, wrath, strife, seditious, heresies, 21 envy, murders, drunkenness, revelries, and the like; of which I tell you beforehand, just as I also told you in time past, 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 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, nor indeed can be. 8 So then, those who are in the flesh cannot please God.
  • Jer 4:14 : 14 O Jerusalem, wash your heart from wickedness, that you may be saved. How long shall your vain thoughts lodge within you?
  • 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 That he should no longer 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 done the will of the Gentiles, when we walked in sensuality, lusts, excess of wine, revelings, banquetings, and abominable idolatries:
  • Jas 2:4 : 4 are you not then partial among yourselves, and become judges with evil thoughts?
  • Acts 8:22 : 22 Repent therefore of this wickedness, and pray God if perhaps the thought of your heart may be forgiven you.
  • Matt 9:4 : 4 And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think 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 to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you make clean the outside of the cup and dish, but inside they are full of extortion and excess. 26 Blind Pharisee, cleanse first the inside of the cup and dish, that the outside of them may be clean also. 27 Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for you are like whitewashed tombs, which indeed appear beautiful outwardly, but inside are full of dead men's bones and all uncleanness. 28 Even so you also outwardly appear righteous to men, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
  • Luke 16:15 : 15 And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.
  • Acts 5:4 : 4 While it remained, was it not your own? And after it was sold, was it not in your own power? Why have you conceived this thing in your heart? You have not lied to men, but to God.
  • Rom 7:5 : 5 For when we were in the flesh, the passions of sins, which were by the law, worked in our members to bear fruit to death.
  • Rom 7:8 : 8 But sin, taking opportunity by the commandment, worked in me all kinds of covetousness. For without the law, sin was dead.
  • Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus says the Lord GOD; It shall also come to pass, that at the same time, things shall come into your mind, and you shall think an evil thought:
  • Gen 6:5 : 5 Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.
  • Gen 8:21 : 21 And the LORD smelled a pleasing aroma, and the LORD said in His heart, I will never again curse the ground because of man, for the imagination of his heart is evil from his youth; neither will I again destroy every living thing, 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 who is born of a woman, that he should be righteous? 15 Behold, He puts no trust in His saints; yes, the heavens are not clean in His sight. 16 How much more abominable and filthy is man, who drinks iniquity like water?
  • Job 25:4 : 4 How then can man be righteous before God? Or how can he be clean who is born of a woman?
  • Ps 14:1 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, "There is no God." They are corrupt, they have done abominable deeds, there is none who does good.
  • Ps 14:3 : 3 They have all turned aside, they have together become corrupt; there is none who does good, not even one.
  • Ps 53:1 : 1 The fool has said in his heart, There is no God. They are corrupt, and have done abominable iniquity; there is none who does good.
  • Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one of them has turned back; they have altogether become filthy; there is none who does good, no, not one.
  • Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh 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 your 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 boundary of the widow.
  • Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.
  • Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is drawn away by his own lust and enticed. 15 Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.
  • Titus 3:3 : 3 For we ourselves were also once foolish, disobedient, deceived, serving various lusts and pleasures, living in malice and envy, hateful, and hating one another.

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  • 91%

    18But those things which proceed out of the mouth come from the heart; and they defile a man.

    19For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:

    20These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with unwashed hands does not defile a man.

  • Mark 7:22-23
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    22Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness:

    23All these evil things come from within and defile a man.

  • Mark 7:18-20
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    18And he said to them, Are you also without understanding? Do you not perceive that whatever enters a man from outside cannot defile him,

    19Because it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and is eliminated, purging all foods?

    20And he said, What comes out of a man is what defiles a man.

  • 45A good man out of the good treasure of his heart brings forth that which is good; and an evil man out of the evil treasure of his heart brings forth that which is evil: for out of the abundance of the heart his mouth speaks.

  • 15There is nothing that enters a man from outside which can defile him; but the things which come out of him, those are what defile a man.

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    33Either make the tree good, and its fruit good; or else make the tree corrupt, and its fruit corrupt: for the tree is known by its fruit.

    34O generation of vipers, how can you, being evil, speak good things? For out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.

    35A good man out of the good treasure of the heart brings forth good things: and an evil man out of the evil treasure brings forth evil things.

  • Prov 6:17-18
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    17A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,

    18A heart that devises wicked imaginations, feet that are swift in running to mischief,

  • 11Not that which goes into the mouth defiles a man; but that which comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.

  • 4And Jesus, knowing their thoughts, said, Why do you think evil in your hearts?

  • 29Being filled with all unrighteousness, sexual immorality, wickedness, covetousness, maliciousness; full of envy, murder, strife, deceit, evil-mindedness; they are whisperers,

  • Matt 7:17-18
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    17Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit.

    18A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit.

  • 9The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it?

  • 28But I say to you, that whoever looks at a woman to lust after her has already committed adultery with her in his heart.

  • 19Now the works of the flesh are evident, which are these: adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lewdness,

  • Rom 7:19-21
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    19For the good that I want to do, I do not do; but the evil I do not want to do, that I do.

    20Now if I do what I do not want to do, it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

    21I find then a law, that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.

  • 15Then when lust has conceived, it gives birth to sin: and sin, when it is full-grown, brings forth death.

  • 2For their hearts plot destruction, and their lips talk of mischief.

  • 5Then the LORD saw that the wickedness of man was great on the earth, and that every intent of the thoughts of his heart was only evil continually.

  • 1From where do wars and fights among you come? Do they not come from your desires that war within your members?

  • 7Their feet run to evil, and they hurry to shed innocent blood: their thoughts are thoughts of iniquity; devastation and destruction are in their paths.

  • 2Yes, in heart you work wickedness; you weigh the violence of your hands in the earth.

  • 14Perversity is in his heart, he devises mischief continually; he sows discord.

  • 6They search out iniquities; they accomplish a diligent search; the inward thought of every one of them, and the heart, is deep.

  • 7For as he thinks in his heart, so is he: "Eat and drink," he says to you; but his heart is not with you.

  • 21For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also.

  • 5Therefore, put to death your members which are upon the earth: fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection, evil desire, and covetousness, which is idolatry.

  • 17Now then it is no longer I who do it, but sin that dwells in me.

  • 10For fornicators, for those who defile themselves with mankind, for kidnappers, for liars, for perjurers, and if there is any other thing that is contrary to sound doctrine,

  • 2By swearing, and lying, and killing, and stealing, and committing adultery, they break out, and bloodshed follows bloodshed.

  • 15And he said to them, You are the ones who justify yourselves before men; but God knows your hearts: for what is highly esteemed among men is abomination in the sight of God.

  • 10Out of the same mouth proceed blessing and cursing. My brothers, these things ought not to be so.

  • 1The transgression of the wicked speaks within my heart, that there is no fear of God before his eyes.

  • 20Deceit is in the heart of those who imagine evil, but to the counselors of peace there is joy.

  • 25When he speaks kindly, do not believe him, for there are seven abominations in his heart.

  • 43For a good tree does not bring forth corrupt fruit; neither does a corrupt tree bring forth good fruit.

  • 20For there is not a just man on earth who does good and does not sin.

  • 14Having eyes full of adultery and unable to cease from sin, enticing unstable souls. They have a heart trained in covetous practices and are accursed children.

  • 11There is one come out from you, who imagines evil against the LORD, a wicked counselor.

  • 16For their feet run to evil, and they make haste to shed blood.