Mark 7:21

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders,

📖 Grammatical Analysis

Original Text

Ἔσωθεν γάρ, ἐκ τῆς καρδίας τῶν ἀνθρώπων, οἱ διαλογισμοὶ οἱ κακοὶ ἐκπορεύονται, μοιχεῖαι, πορνεῖαι, φόνοι,

Transliteration

For from esōthen, from the kardias of anthrōpōn, the dialogismoi the kakoi ekporeuontai, moicheiai, porneiai, phonoi,

Grammar Details

• *esōthen*: adverb - from within/inside
• *kardias*: genitive, feminine, singular - heart
• *anthrōpōn*: genitive, masculine, plural - men
• *dialogismoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - thoughts/reasonings
• *kakoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - evil/bad
• *ekporeuontai*: present middle, 3rd plural - proceed out/come forth
• *moicheiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - adulteries
• *porneiai*: nominative, feminine, plural - fornications/sexual immoralities
• *phonoi*: nominative, masculine, plural - murders

Word Meanings

• *esōthen*: from within/from inside/internally
• *kardias*: heart/mind/inner being
• *dialogismoi*: thoughts/reasonings/deliberations
• *kakoi*: evil/bad/harmful
• *moicheiai*: adulteries/marital unfaithfulness
• *porneiai*: sexual immoralities/fornications/prostitutions
• *phonoi*: murders/killings/slaughters

Referenced Verses

• Jas 4:1-3 : 1 Whence `are' wars and fightings among you? not thence -- out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members? 2 ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking; 3 ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend `it'.
• Gal 5:19-21 : 19 And manifest also are the works of the flesh, which are: Adultery, whoredom, uncleanness, lasciviousness, 20 idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, strifes, emulations, wraths, rivalries, dissensions, sects, 21 envyings, murders, drunkennesses, revellings, and such like, of which I tell you before, as I also said before, that those doing such things the reign of God shall not inherit.
• Jer 17:9 : 9 Crooked `is' the heart above all things, And it `is' incurable -- who doth know it?
• Rom 8:7-8 : 7 because the mind of the flesh `is' enmity to God, for to the law of God it doth not subject itself, 8 for neither is it able; and those who are in the flesh are not able to please God.
• Jer 4:14 : 14 Wash from evil thy heart, O Jerusalem, That thou mayest be saved, Till when dost thou lodge in thy heart Thoughts of thy strength?
• 1 Pet 4:2-3 : 2 no more in the desires of men, but in the will of God, to live the rest of the time in the flesh; 3 for sufficient to us `is' the past time of life the will of the nations to have wrought, having walked in lasciviousnesses, desires, excesses of wines, revelings, drinking-bouts, and unlawful idolatries,
• Jas 2:4 : 4 ye did not judge fully in yourselves, and did become ill-reasoning judges.
• Acts 8:22 : 22 reform, therefore, from this thy wickedness, and beseech God, if then the purpose of thy heart may be forgiven thee,
• Matt 9:4 : 4 And Jesus, having known their thoughts, said, `Why think ye evil in your hearts?
• Matt 15:19 : 19 for out of the heart come forth evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, whoredoms, thefts, false witnessings, evil speakings:
• Matt 23:25-28 : 25 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye make clean the outside of the cup and the plate, and within they are full of rapine and incontinence. 26 `Blind Pharisee! cleanse first the inside of the cup and the plate, that the outside of them also may become clean. 27 `Wo to you, Scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! because ye are like to whitewashed sepulchres, which outwardly indeed do appear beautiful, and within are full of bones of dead men, and of all uncleanness; 28 so also ye outwardly indeed do appear to men righteous, and within ye are full of hypocrisy and lawlessness.
• Luke 16:15 : 15 and he said to them, `Ye are those declaring yourselves righteous before men, but God doth know your hearts; because that which among men is high, `is' abomination before God;
• Acts 5:4 : 4 while it remained, did it not remain thine? and having been sold, in thy authority was it not? why `is' it that thou didst put in thy heart this thing? thou didst not lie to men, but to God;'
• Rom 7:5 : 5 for when we were in the flesh, the passions of the sins, that `are' through the law, were working in our members, to bear fruit to the death;
• Rom 7:8 : 8 `Thou shalt not covet;' and the sin having received an opportunity, through the command, did work in me all covetousness -- for apart from law sin is dead.
• Ezek 38:10 : 10 Thus said the Lord Jehovah: And it hath come to pass in that day, Come up do things on thy heart, And thou hast thought an evil thought,
• Gen 6:5 : 5 And Jehovah seeth that abundant `is' the wickedness of man in the earth, and every imagination of the thoughts of his heart only evil all the day;
• Gen 8:21 : 21 and Jehovah smelleth the sweet fragrance, and Jehovah saith unto His heart, `I continue not to disesteem any more the ground because of man, though the imagination of the heart of man `is' evil from his youth; and I continue not to smite any more all living, as I have done;
• Job 14:4 : 4 Who giveth a clean thing out of an unclean? not one.
• Job 15:14-16 : 14 What `is' man that he is pure, And that he is righteous, one born of woman? 15 Lo, in His holy ones He putteth no credence, And the heavens have not been pure in His eyes. 16 Also -- surely abominable and filthy Is man drinking as water perverseness.
• Job 25:4 : 4 And what? is man righteous with God? And what? is he pure -- born of a woman?
• Ps 14:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- By David. A fool hath said in his heart, `God is not;' They have done corruptly, They have done abominable actions, There is not a doer of good.
• Ps 14:3 : 3 The whole have turned aside, Together they have been filthy: There is not a doer of good, not even one.
• Ps 53:1 : 1 To the Overseer. -- `On a disease.' -- An instruction, by David. A fool said in his heart, `There is no God.' They have done corruptly, Yea, they have done abominable iniquity, There is none doing good.
• Ps 53:3 : 3 Every one went back, together they became filthy, There is none doing good -- not even one.
• Ps 58:2-3 : 2 Even in heart ye work iniquities, In the land the violence of your hands ye ponder. 3 The wicked have been estranged from the womb, They have erred from the belly, speaking lies.
• Prov 4:23 : 23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.
• Prov 15:25 : 25 The house of the proud Jehovah pulleth down, And He setteth up the border of the widow.
• Isa 59:7 : 7 Their feet to evil do run, And they haste to shed innocent blood, Their thoughts `are' thoughts of iniquity, Spoiling and destruction `are' in their highways.
• Jas 1:14-15 : 14 and each one is tempted, by his own desires being led away and enticed, 15 afterward the desire having conceived, doth give birth to sin, and the sin having been perfected, doth bring forth death.
• Titus 3:3 : 3 for we were once -- also we -- thoughtless, disobedient, led astray, serving desires and pleasures manifold, in malice and envy living, odious -- hating one another;