Mark 7:23 - An Understandable Version (2005 edition)

²³ All these evil things proceed from within [man’s heart] and [spiritually] corrupt him.”

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

²³ all these evil things come from within, and defile the man.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

²³ All these evil [purposes and desires] come from within, and they make the man unclean and render him unhallowed.

American Standard Version (1901)

²³ all these evil things proceed from within, and defile the man.

Common English Bible

²³ All these evil things come from the inside and contaminate a person in God’s sight.”

Catholic Public Domain Version

²³ All these evils procede from within and pollute a man."

Mark 7:23 Cross References

Mark 7:15

There is nothing that enters a person’s body from the outside that can [spiritually] corrupt him, but it is what proceeds out of a person’s life that [spiritually] corrupts him.”

Titus 1:15

Everything is pure [i.e., ceremonially acceptable] to the person who is pure [i.e., who has been cleansed by the blood of Christ], but to those who are [spiritually] corrupt, and do not believe [in Christ], nothing is pure, but both their minds and consciences are corrupted. [Note: This statement was intended to remove the physical restrictions imposed by the Law of Moses].

1 Corinthians 3:17

If any person destroys God’s Temple, God will destroy him. For God’s Temple is holy [i.e., set apart for His service], and you people are His [holy] Temple.

Jude 1:8

In the same way, these people have dreams of committing physically corruptive practices; they reject authority over them [i.e., by both God and men], and speak against glorious [i.e., heavenly] beings.

Mark 7:18

He said to them, ‘Are you also as lacking in understanding [as the others]? Do you not understand that whatever enters a person’s body from the outside cannot [spiritually] corrupt him?

Mark 7:20

And He said, “Whatever proceeds out of a man’s life is what [spiritually] corrupts him.

Mark 7:22

greedy desires, wickedness, deceit, unrestrained indecency, envy, slander, arrogance and foolishness.

Mark 7:24

And from there Jesus got up and went away into the region of Tyre and Sidon. He entered a house but did not want anyone to know it. However, He could not keep it secret.