Mark 7:18 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

¹⁸ And he said to them, “Then are you also without understanding? Do you not see that whatever goes into a man from outside cannot defile him,

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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 which is hard to explain, since you have become dull of hearing.

Luke 24:25

And he said to them, “O foolish men, and slow of heart to believe all that the prophets have spoken!

Matthew 16:11

How is it that you fail to perceive that I did not speak about bread? Beware of the leaven of the Pharisees and Sadducees.”

1 Corinthians 3:2

I fed you with milk, not solid food; for you were not ready for it; and even yet you are not ready,

John 3:10

Jesus answered him, “Are you a teacher of Israel, and yet you do not understand this?

Mark 4:13

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

Matthew 15:11

not what goes into the mouth defiles a man, but what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a man.”

Mark 7:17

And when he had entered the house, and left the people, his disciples asked him about the parable.

Mark 7:19

since it enters, not his heart but his stomach, and so passes on?” (Thus he declared all foods clean.)