Mark 7:15

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

There is nothing outside of a person that can defile him by going into him. Rather, it is what comes out of a person that defiles him.”

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  • Mark 7:18-23 : 18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him? 19 For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.) 20 He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him. 21 For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder, 22 adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly. 23 All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
  • Matt 15:16 : 16 Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?
  • Lev 11:42-47 : 42 You must not eat anything that crawls on its belly or anything that walks on all fours or on any number of legs of all the swarming things that swarm on the land, because they are detestable. 43 Do not make yourselves detestable by any of the swarming things. You must not defile yourselves by them and become unclean by them, 44 for I am the LORD your God and you are to sanctify yourselves and be holy because I am holy. You must not defile yourselves by any of the swarming things that creep on the ground, 45 for I am the LORD who brought you up from the land of Egypt to be your God, and you are to be holy because I am holy. 46 This is the law of the land animals, the birds, all the living creatures that move in the water, and all the creatures that swarm on the land, 47 to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Guard your heart with all vigilance, for from it are the sources of life.
  • Acts 10:14-16 : 14 But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!” 15 The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!” 16 This happened three times, and immediately the object was taken up into heaven.
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 He said to them,“You know that it is unlawful for a Jew to associate with or visit a Gentile, yet God has shown me that I should call no person defiled or ritually unclean.
  • Acts 11:8-9 : 8 But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’ 9 But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’ 10 This happened three times, and then everything was pulled up to heaven again.
  • Acts 15:20-21 : 20 but that we should write them a letter telling them to abstain from things defiled by idols and from sexual immorality and from what has been strangled and from blood. 21 For Moses has had those who proclaim him in every town from ancient times, because he is read aloud in the synagogues every Sabbath.”
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 For the kingdom of God does not consist of food and drink, but righteousness, peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit.
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Eat anything that is sold in the marketplace without questions of conscience,
  • 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 They will prohibit marriage and require abstinence from foods that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those who believe and know the truth. 4 For every creation of God is good and no food is to be rejected if it is received with thanksgiving. 5 For it is sanctified by God’s word and by prayer.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 They served only for matters of food and drink and various ritual washings; they are external regulations imposed until the new order came.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 Do not be carried away by all sorts of strange teachings. For it is good for the heart to be strengthened by grace, not ritual meals, which have never benefited those who participated in them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Mark 7:17-24
    8 verses
    91%

    17Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

    18He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?

    19For it does not enter his heart but his stomach, and then goes out into the sewer.”(This means all foods are clean.)

    20He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.

    21For from within, out of the human heart, come evil ideas, sexual immorality, theft, murder,

    22adultery, greed, evil, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, pride, and folly.

    23All these evils come from within and defile a person.”

    24A Syrophoenician Woman’s Faith After Jesus left there, he went to the region of Tyre. When he went into a house, he did not want anyone to know, but he was not able to escape notice.

  • Matt 15:10-12
    3 verses
    88%

    10True Defilement Then he called the crowd to him and said,“Listen and understand.

    11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”

    12Then the disciples came to him and said,“Do you know that when the Pharisees heard this saying they were offended?”

  • Matt 15:16-20
    5 verses
    85%

    16Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish?

    17Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?

    18But the things that come out of the mouth come from the heart, and these things defile a person.

    19For out of the heart come evil ideas, murder, adultery, sexual immorality, theft, false testimony, slander.

    20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”

  • Mark 7:14
    76%

    14Then he called the crowd again and said to them,“Listen to me, everyone, and understand.

  • Titus 1:15
    74%

    15All is pure to those who are pure. But to those who are corrupt and unbelieving, nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted.

  • Mark 7:1-5
    5 verses
    72%

    1Breaking Human Traditions Now the Pharisees and some of the experts in the law who came from Jerusalem gathered around him.

    2And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.

    3(For the Pharisees and all the Jews do not eat unless they perform a ritual washing, holding fast to the tradition of the elders.

    4And when they come from the marketplace, they do not eat unless they wash. They hold fast to many other traditions: the washing of cups, pots, kettles, and dining couches.)

    5The Pharisees and the experts in the law asked him,“Why do your disciples not live according to the tradition of the elders, but eat with unwashed hands?”

  • Luke 11:39-41
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    72%

    39But the Lord said to him,“Now you Pharisees clean the outside of the cup and the plate, but inside you are full of greed and wickedness.

    40You fools! Didn’t the one who made the outside make the inside as well?

    41But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.

  • Luke 6:45
    72%

    45The good person out of the good treasury of his heart produces good, and the evil person out of his evil treasury produces evil, for his mouth speaks from what fills his heart.

  • Rom 14:14
    71%

    14I know and am convinced in the Lord Jesus that there is nothing unclean in itself; still, it is unclean to the one who considers it unclean.

  • Matt 12:35
    71%

    35The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.

  • Job 14:4
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    4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!

  • Lev 5:3
    70%

    3or when he touches human uncleanness with regard to anything by which he can become unclean, even if he did not realize it, but he himself has later come to know it and is guilty;

  • Matt 23:26
    70%

    26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!

  • Rom 14:20
    70%

    20Do not destroy the work of God for the sake of food. For although all things are clean, it is wrong to cause anyone to stumble by what you eat.

  • Luke 16:15
    70%

    15But Jesus said to them,“You are the ones who justify yourselves in men’s eyes, but God knows your hearts. For what is highly prized among men is utterly detestable in God’s sight.

  • Mark 5:8
    70%

    8(For Jesus had said to him,“Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)

  • Acts 11:8
    69%

    8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’

  • Lev 22:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5or a man who touches a swarming thing by which he becomes unclean, or touches a person by which he becomes unclean, whatever that person’s impurity–

    6the person who touches any of these will be unclean until evening and must not eat from the holy offerings unless he has bathed his body in water.

  • Lev 15:16
    69%

    16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,

  • Lev 15:7
    69%

    7The one who touches the body of the man with a discharge must wash his clothes, bathe in water, and be unclean until evening.

  • Mark 1:26
    69%

    26After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.

  • Mark 3:30
    68%

    30(because they said,“He has an unclean spirit”).

  • Lev 11:36
    68%

    36However, a spring or a cistern which collects water will be clean, but one who touches their carcass will be unclean.

  • Luke 11:24
    68%

    24Response to Jesus’ Work“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but not finding any. Then it says,‘I will return to the home I left.’

  • Lev 18:24
    68%

    24Warning against the Abominations of the Nations“‘Do not defile yourselves with any of these things, for the nations which I am about to drive out before you have been defiled with all these things.

  • Luke 8:17
    68%

    17For nothing is hidden that will not be revealed, and nothing concealed that will not be made known and brought to light.

  • Mark 1:23
    68%

    23Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,

  • Matt 15:2
    68%

    2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”

  • Matt 12:43
    68%

    43The Return of the Unclean Spirit“When an unclean spirit goes out of a person, it passes through waterless places looking for rest but does not find it.