Verse 15

there is nothing from without the man entering into him that is able to defile him, but the things coming out from him, those are the things defiling the man.

Referenced Verses

  • Mark 7:18-23 : 18 and he saith to them, `So also ye are without understanding! Do ye not perceive that nothing from without entering into the man is able to defile him? 19 because it doth not enter into his heart, but into the belly, and into the drain it doth go out, purifying all the meats.' 20 And he said -- `That which is coming out from the man, that doth defile the man; 21 for from within, out of the heart of men, the evil reasonings do come forth, adulteries, whoredoms, murders, 22 thefts, covetous desires, wickedness, deceit, arrogance, an evil eye, evil speaking, pride, foolishness; 23 all these evils do come forth from within, and they defile the man.'
  • Matt 12:34 : 34 `Brood of vipers! how are ye able to speak good things -- being evil? for out of the abundance of the heart doth the mouth speak.
  • Matt 15:16 : 16 And Jesus said, `Are ye also yet without understanding?
  • Lev 11:42-47 : 42 any thing going on the belly, and any going on four, unto every multiplier of feet, to every teeming thing which is teeming on the earth -- ye do not eat them, for they `are' an abomination; 43 ye do not make yourselves abominable with any teeming thing which is teeming, nor do ye make yourselves unclean with them, so that ye have been unclean thereby. 44 `For I `am' Jehovah your God, and ye have sanctified yourselves, and ye have been holy, for I `am' holy; and ye do not defile your persons with any teeming thing which is creeping on the earth; 45 for I `am' Jehovah who am bringing you up out of the land of Egypt to become your God; and ye have been holy, for I `am' holy. 46 `This `is' a law of the beasts, and of the fowl, and of every living creature which is moving in the waters, and of every creature which is teeming on the earth, 47 to make separation between the unclean and the pure, and between the beast that is eaten, and the beast that is not eaten.'
  • Prov 4:23 : 23 Above every charge keep thy heart, For out of it `are' the outgoings of life.
  • Acts 10:14-16 : 14 And Peter said, `Not so, Lord; because at no time did I eat anything common or unclean;' 15 and `there is' a voice again a second time unto him: `What God did cleanse, thou, declare not thou common;' 16 and this was done thrice, and again was the vessel received up to the heaven.
  • Acts 10:28 : 28 And he said unto them, `Ye know how it is unlawful for a man, a Jew, to keep company with, or to come unto, one of another race, but to me God did shew to call no man common or unclean;
  • Acts 11:8-9 : 8 and I said, Not so, Lord; because anything common or unclean hath at no time entered into my mouth; 9 and a voice did answer me a second time out of the heaven, What God did cleanse, thou -- declare not thou common. 10 `And this happened thrice, and again was all drawn up to the heaven,
  • Acts 15:20-21 : 20 but to write to them to abstain from the pollutions of the idols, and the whoredom, and the strangled thing; and the blood; 21 for Moses from former generations in every city hath those preaching him -- in the synagogues every sabbath being read.'
  • Rom 14:17 : 17 for the reign of God is not eating and drinking, but righteousness, and peace, and joy in the Holy Spirit;
  • 1 Cor 10:25 : 25 Whatever in the meat-market is sold eat ye, not inquiring, because of the conscience,
  • 1 Tim 4:3-5 : 3 forbidding to marry -- to abstain from meats that God created to be received with thanksgiving by those believing and acknowledging the truth, 4 because every creature of God `is' good, and nothing `is' to be rejected, with thanksgiving being received, 5 for it is sanctified through the word of God and intercession.
  • Titus 1:15 : 15 all things, indeed, `are' pure to the pure, and to the defiled and unstedfast `is' nothing pure, but of them defiled `are' even the mind and the conscience;
  • Heb 9:10 : 10 only in victuals, and drinks, and different baptisms, and fleshly ordinances -- till the time of reformation imposed upon `them'.
  • Heb 13:9 : 9 with teachings manifold and strange be not carried about, for `it is' good that by grace the heart be confirmed, not with meats, in which they who were occupied were not profited;