Mark 7:20
He said,“What comes out of a person defiles him.
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- Mark 7:15 : 15 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.”
- Jas 3:6 : 6 And the tongue is a fire! The tongue represents the world of wrongdoing among the parts of our bodies. It pollutes the entire body and sets fire to the course of human existence– and is set on fire by hell.
- Jas 4:1 : 1 Passions and Pride Where do the conflicts and where do the quarrels among you come from? Is it not from this, from your passions that battle inside you?
- Heb 7:6 : 6 But Melchizedek who does not share their ancestry collected a tithe from Abraham and blessed the one who possessed the promise.
- Jas 1:14-15 : 14 But each one is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desires. 15 Then when desire conceives, it gives birth to sin, and when sin is full grown, it gives birth to death.
- Ps 41:6 : 6 When someone comes to visit, he pretends to be friendly; he thinks of ways to defame me, and when he leaves he slanders me.
- Mic 2:1 : 1 Land Robbers Will Lose Their Land Beware wicked schemers, those who devise calamity as they lie in bed. As soon as morning dawns they carry out their plans, because they have the power to do so.
- Matt 12:34-37 : 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. 35 The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury. 36 I tell you that on the day of judgment, people will give an account for every worthless word they speak. 37 For by your words you will be justified, and by your words you will be condemned.”
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- Mark 7:14-152 verses91%
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 15:10-112 verses89%
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.”
- Matt 15:17-204 verses89%
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 7:21-244 verses88%
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.
- Mark 7:17-193 verses85%
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.)
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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.
- Matt 12:33-353 verses74%
33Trees and Their Fruit“Make a tree good and its fruit will be good, or make a tree bad and its fruit will be bad, for a tree is known by its fruit.
34Offspring of vipers! How are you able to say anything good, since you are evil? For the mouth speaks from what fills the heart.
35The good person brings good things out of his good treasury, and the evil person brings evil things out of his evil treasury.
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8(For Jesus had said to him,“Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)
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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.
- Luke 11:39-413 verses71%
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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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.
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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.
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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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26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
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7for he is like someone who has calculated the cost in his mind.“Eat and drink,” he says to you, but his heart is not with you;
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2And they saw that some of Jesus’ disciples ate their bread with unclean hands, that is, unwashed.
- Matt 7:17-182 verses70%
17In the same way, every good tree bears good fruit, but the bad tree bears bad fruit.
18A good tree is not able to bear bad fruit, nor a bad tree to bear good fruit.
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26After throwing him into convulsions, the unclean spirit cried out with a loud voice and came out of him.
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20Now if I do what I do not want, it is no longer me doing it but sin that lives in me.
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4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
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16“‘When a man has a seminal emission, he must bathe his whole body in water and be unclean until evening,
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16how much less man, who is abominable and corrupt, who drinks in evil like water!
- Lev 18:27-282 verses69%
27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
28So do not make the land vomit you out because you defile it just as it has vomited out the nations that were before you.
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17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
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10From the same mouth come blessing and cursing. These things should not be so, my brothers and sisters.
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4When Jesus perceived their thoughts he said,“Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?
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30(because they said,“He has an unclean spirit”).
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21When a person touches anything unclean(whether human uncleanness, or an unclean animal, or an unclean detestable creature) and eats some of the meat of the peace offering sacrifice which belongs to the LORD, that person will be cut off from his people.’”
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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.’
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7They worship me in vain, teaching as doctrine the commandments of men.’
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20So then, you will recognize them by their fruit.
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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.
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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?”