Mark 7:15

Catholic Public Domain Version

There is nothing from outside a man which, by entering into him, is able to defile him. But the things which procede from a man, these are what pollute a man.

Cross References

Proverbs 4:23

Preserve your heart with all watchfulness, for life proceeds from this.

Matthew 12:34

Progeny of vipers, how are you able to speak good things while you are evil? For out of the abundance of the heart, the mouth speaks.

Matthew 15:16

But he said: "Are you, even now, without understanding?

Mark 7:14

And again, calling the crowd to him, he said to them: "Listen to me, all of you, and understand.

Mark 7:16

Whoever has ears to hear, let him hear."

Acts 10:28

And he said to them: "You know how abominable it would be for a Jewish man to be joined with, or to be added to, a foreign people. But God has revealed to me to call no man common or unclean.

Romans 14:17

For the kingdom of God is not food and drink, but rather justice and peace and joy, in the Holy Spirit.

1 Corinthians 10:25

Whatever is sold in the market, you may eat, without asking questions for the sake of conscience.

Titus 1:15

All things are clean to those who are clean. But to those who are defiled, and to unbelievers, nothing is clean; for both their mind and their conscience have been polluted.

Hebrews 13:9

Do not be led away by changing or strange doctrines. And it is best for the heart to be sustained by grace, not by foods. For the latter have not been as useful to those who walked by them.

Hebrews 9:10

as well as the various washings and justices of the flesh, which were imposed upon them until the time of correction.