Mark 7:23
All these evils come from within and defile a person.”
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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.”
- Mark 7:18 : 18 He said to them,“Are you so foolish? Don’t you understand that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile him?
- 1 Cor 3:17 : 17 If someone destroys God’s temple, God will destroy him. For God’s temple is holy, which is what you are.
- 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.
- Jude 1:8 : 8 Yet these men, as a result of their dreams, defile the flesh, reject authority, and insult the glorious ones.
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- Mark 7:17-226 verses88%
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.
- Mark 7:14-152 verses85%
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 15:17-204 verses83%
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.”
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11What defiles a person is not what goes into the mouth; it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles a person.”
- Matt 12:33-353 verses75%
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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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.
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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.
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23But if your eye is diseased, your whole body will be full of darkness. If then the light in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
- Matt 23:25-262 verses73%
25“Woe to you, experts in the law and you Pharisees, hypocrites! You clean the outside of the cup and the dish, but inside they are full of greed and self-indulgence.
26Blind Pharisee! First clean the inside of the cup, so that the outside may become clean too!
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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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23Just then there was a man in their synagogue with an unclean spirit, and he cried out,
- Matt 7:17-182 verses71%
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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41But give from your heart to those in need, and then everything will be clean for you.
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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.
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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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45Then it goes and brings with it seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first. It will be that way for this evil generation as well!”
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27for the people who were in the land before you have done all these abominations, and the land has become unclean.
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30(because they said,“He has an unclean spirit”).
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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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26Then it goes and brings seven other spirits more evil than itself, and they go in and live there, so the last state of that person is worse than the first.”
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4When Jesus perceived their thoughts he said,“Why do you respond with evil in your hearts?
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8(For Jesus had said to him,“Come out of that man, you unclean spirit!”)
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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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15Such wisdom does not come from above but is earthly, natural, demonic.
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17But now it is no longer me doing it, but sin that lives in me.
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28In the same way, on the outside you look righteous to people, but inside you are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
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9The human mind is more deceitful than anything else. It is incurably bad. Who can understand it?
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20For there is not one truly righteous person on the earth who continually does good and never sins.
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19For I do not do the good I want, but I do the very evil I do not want!
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4Who can make a clean thing come from an unclean? No one!
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13But God will judge those outside. Remove the evil person from among you.
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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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21So, I find the law that when I want to do good, evil is present with me.
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29They are filled with every kind of unrighteousness, wickedness, covetousness, malice. They are rife with envy, murder, strife, deceit, hostility. They are gossips,
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19Now the works of the flesh are obvious: sexual immorality, impurity, depravity,