Mark 7:17-23 Devotionals, Articles & Bible Study

¹⁷After Jesus had left the crowd and gone into the house, His disciples inquired about the parable.

¹⁸“Are you still so dull?” He asked. “Do you not understand? Nothing that enters a man from the outside can defile him,

¹⁹because it does not enter his heart, but it goes into the stomach and then is eliminated.” (Thus all foods are clean.)

          20He continued: “What comes out of a man, that is what defiles him.
          21For from within the hearts of men come evil thoughts, sexual immorality, theft, murder, adultery,
          22greed, wickedness, deceit, debauchery, envy, slander, arrogance, and foolishness.
          23All these evils come from within, and these are what defile a man.”

— Mark 7:17-23

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