Mark 7:18
He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
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- Matt 15:16-17 : 16 Jesus said,“Even after all this, are you still so foolish? 17 Don’t you understand that whatever goes into the mouth enters the stomach and then passes out into the sewer?
- Matt 16:11 : 11 How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
- Mark 4:13 : 13 He said to them,“Don’t you understand this parable? Then how will you understand any parable?
- Luke 24:25 : 25 So he said to them,“You foolish people– how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!
- John 3:10 : 10 Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?
- 1 Cor 3:2 : 2 I fed you milk, not solid food, for you were not yet ready. In fact, you are still not ready,
- Heb 5:11 : 11 The Need to Move on to Maturity On this topic we have much to say and it is difficult to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.
- Isa 28:9-9 : 9 Who is the LORD trying to teach? To whom is he explaining a message? Those just weaned from milk! Those just taken from their mother’s breast! 10 Indeed, they will hear meaningless gibberish, senseless babbling, a syllable here, a syllable there.
- Jer 5:4-5 : 4 I thought,“Surely it is only the ignorant poor who act this way. They act like fools because they do not know what the LORD demands. They do not know what their God requires of them. 5 I will go to the leaders and speak with them. Surely they know what the LORD demands. Surely they know what their God requires of them.” Yet all of them, too, have rejected his authority and refuse to submit to him.
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- Mark 7:19-213 verses91%
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,
- Mark 7:13-153 verses89%
13Thus you nullify the word of God by your tradition that you have handed down. And you do many things like this.”
14Then he called the crowd again and said to them,“Listen to me, everyone, and understand.
15There 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.”
- Matt 15:16-183 verses86%
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.
- Matt 15:10-123 verses83%
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?”
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17Now when Jesus had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.
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20These are the things that defile a person; it is not eating with unwashed hands that defiles a person.”
- Mark 7:23-242 verses77%
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.
- Mark 7:2-54 verses75%
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?”
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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 11:38-414 verses72%
38The Pharisee was astonished when he saw that Jesus did not first wash his hands before the meal.
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.
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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.
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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.
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26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
- Acts 11:8-92 verses72%
8But I said,‘Certainly not, Lord, for nothing defiled or ritually unclean has ever entered my mouth!’
9But the voice replied a second time from heaven,‘What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!’
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21Then he said to them,“Do you still not understand?”
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2“Why do your disciples disobey the tradition of the elders? For they don’t wash their hands when they eat.”
- Acts 10:14-152 verses70%
14But Peter said,“Certainly not, Lord, for I have never eaten anything defiled and ritually unclean!”
15The voice spoke to him again, a second time,“What God has made clean, you must not consider ritually unclean!”
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34Any food that may be eaten which becomes soaked with water will become unclean. Anything drinkable in any such vessel will become unclean.
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11How could you not understand that I was not speaking to you about bread? But beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”
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19The meat which touches anything ceremonially unclean must not be eaten; it must be burned up in the fire. As for ceremonially clean meat, everyone who is ceremonially clean may eat the meat.
- Lev 22:5-62 verses69%
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.
- Mark 8:17-182 verses69%
17When he learned of this, Jesus said to them,“Why are you arguing about having no bread? Do you still not see or understand? Have your hearts been hardened?
18Though you have eyes, don’t you see? And though you have ears, can’t you hear? Don’t you remember?
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47to distinguish between the unclean and the clean, between the living creatures that may be eaten and the living creatures that must not be eaten.’”
- Mark 7:7-82 verses69%
7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
8Having no regard for the command of God, you hold fast to human tradition.”
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6Do not give what is holy to dogs or throw your pearls before pigs; otherwise they will trample them under their feet and turn around and tear you to pieces.
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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;
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8Now immediately, when Jesus realized in his spirit that they were contemplating such thoughts, he said to them,“Why are you thinking such things in your hearts?
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8Whenever you enter a town and the people welcome you, eat what is set before you.
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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.