Mark 7:18 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹⁸ He said to them, “So, are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a person from outside cannot defile,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁸ And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Do ye not perceive, that whatsoever thing from without entereth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁸ And He said to them, Then are you also unintelligent and dull and without understanding? Do you not discern and see that whatever goes into a man from the outside cannot make him unhallowed or unclean,

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁸ And he saith unto them, Are ye so without understanding also? Perceive ye not, that whatsoever from without goeth into the man, it cannot defile him;

Common English Bible

¹⁸ He said to them, “Don’t you understand either? Don’t you know that nothing from the outside that enters a person has the power to contaminate?

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁸ And he said to them: "So, are you also without prudence? Do you not understand that everything entering to a man from outside is not able to pollute him?

Mark 7:18 Cross References

Hebrews 5:11

About this we have much to say that is hard to explain, since you have become sluggish in hearing.

Luke 24:25

Then he said to them, “Oh, how foolish you are and how slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have declared!

Matthew 16:11

How could you fail to perceive that I was not speaking about bread? Beware of the yeast of the Pharisees and Sadducees!”

1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not solid food, for you were not ready for solid food. Even now you are still not ready,

John 3:10

Jesus answered him, “Are you the teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand these things?

Mark 4:13

And he said to them, “Do you not understand this parable? Then how will you understand all the parables?

Matthew 15:11

it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person, but it is what comes out of the mouth that defiles.”

Mark 7:17

When he had left the crowd and entered the house, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Mark 7:19

since it enters not the heart but the stomach and goes out into the sewer?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)