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All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. New King James Version All these evil things come from within and defile a man.” New American Standard Bible All these evil things come from within and defile the person.” NASB 1995 “All these evil things proceed from within and defile the man.” NASB 1977
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23 ESV - Mark 7:23 All these evils come from within, and...
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23 NLT - Mark 7:23 All these evils come from within, and...
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23 NASB - Mark 7:23 All these evils come from within, and...
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Jul 16, 2006 · And He said, “What comes out of a man, that defiles a man. For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lewdness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness. All these evil things come from within and defile a man.”
21 For from within, out of the heart of men, proceed evil thoughts, adulteries, fornications, murders, 22 Thefts, covetousness, wickedness, deceit, lasciviousness, an evil eye, blasphemy, pride, foolishness: 23 All these evil things come from within, and defile the man. Read full chapter
21 For from within, out of people’s hearts, come evil thoughts, sexual immoralities, thefts, murders, 22 adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, promiscuity, stinginess, blasphemy, pride, and foolishness. 23 All these evil things come from within and defile a person.”
Jesus explains that a heart hardened from within is the only thing that can make someone spiritually unclean, and He spends the next three sections living out this truth. First, He will seek refuge in a Gentile town and heal the daughter of a woman whose people have a long history of persecuting and abusing Jews (Mark 7:24–30).
As a corrupt fountain sends forth corrupt streams, so does a corrupt heart send forth corrupt reasonings, corrupt appetites and passions, and all the wicked words and actions that come from them. A spiritual understanding of the law of God, and a sense of the evil of sin, will cause a man to seek for the grace of the Holy Spirit, to keep down the evil thoughts and affections that work within.
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And if these come from within, then not from without; they are not by imitation or are the mere effects of example in others: example may indeed, and often does, draw out the evil that is within; but it does not produce it there; if it was not there before, it could not draw it out from thence: and if all these evils come from within, then the inward part of man must be sinful and polluted ...